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James Kennedy Moorliead. 



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PEEFACE. 

The writer of this brief sketch of General Moorhead's long and well 
rounded life claims nothing more than to have compiled a continuous 
and connected narrative from different sources at his command. The 
sketch has not been made as long and full as it might easily have been, 
because of the accom])anying papers, addresses, resolutions, letters, etc., 
which set forth the life and character of the General from different 
standpoints, and as seen by different individuals. The estimate of his 
character, as given by any one person, is almost valueless as compared 
with that oneness of opinion, that harmony of sentiment, that agree- 
ment of judgment that may be discerned in all these various utterances 
that come from so many different sources. 

It is sufficient to say, that the purpose of this volume and the wishes 
of the family are best served by giving these different tributes sepa- 
rately, and in their proper order. 

The service thus rendered is poor compared with what the heart 
would rejoice to have done for one so noble in life, so brave in death, 
and so blessed in the memory he has left behind. 

Some may have known him longer, and known him better, but none 
out of his immediate family have missed him more than I, to whom in 
my work, he was a tower of strength, a constant inspiration, and a 
perpetual benediction. 

E. P. COWAN. 

Pittsburgh, June, 1885. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL. 

William Moorhead, the father of James Kennedy Moorhead, came 
to this country from the north of Ireland in the year 1798, and settled 
in Lancaster County, Pa., where a few years afterwards he married 
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, a widow lady whose maiden name was Ken- 
nedy, and who at the time of her second marriage was the mother of 
three daughters, Ellen, Jane and Ann. She belonged to the Scotch- 
Irish family of Kennedys, whose members were well-known as early 
settlers in the Pequa Valley of that county. 

In 1806 Mr. Moorhead purchased and removed to a place on the 
banks of the Susquehanna river, about twenty miles above Harrisburg. 
This place was known for many years as Moorhead's Ferry, and was of 
considerable importance, as the main road leading from the east to the 
settlements on the Upper Susquehanna crossed the river at this point. 
It is now known as Halifax, and lies in Dauphin County. Here Mr. 
Moorhead spent some years in clearing, planting and building; and 
proved himself to be an enthusiastic and successful farmer. But Mr. 
Moorhead was more than the ordinary farmer; he was a gentleman of 
refinement and education, possessing more than the usual amount of 
energy and enterprise. He took an active part in the political move- 
ments of the day. In 1814, when a direct tax was imposed by 
Congress on account of the war, he was appointed l)y President ^Nlad- 
ison. Collector of Internal Revenue for the district in which he resided. 
The duties of this office requiring him to spend most of his time at the 
capital of the State, he removed with his family to Harrisburg in 1815, 
where two years later, in 1817, he died, suddenly, leaving his affairs in a 
very unsettled condition. During the fifteen or sixteen years of his 
married life his wife had borne him six children, James Kennedy, the 
subject of this memorial; Eliza, who afterwards married Mr. AVilliam 
Montgomery; Joel Barlow, now residing in Philadelphia; Adaline, who 
remained single and is only recently deceased ; William Garroway, also 

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now living in Philadelphia, and Henry Clay, who was educated at West 
Point, and who afterwards studied law, was admitted to the bar, 
practiced a few years, but subsequently became a helpless invalid and 
a great sufferer for the last fifteen years of his life, and died about the 
breaking out of the war. 

With this young and numerous family, Mrs. Moorhead, the spring 
after her husband's death, left Harrisburg and returned to the old farm 
and ferry once more. The estate went through the usual course of 
settlement, and at the end of several years the account was closed; the 
debts, public and private, were all paid; the ferry property was sold, 
and nothing remained. In this condition the widow was left with her 
large family of small children to buffet the world as she might. What 
she would have done without the manly and filial support of her eldest 
and now half-grown boy, it would be hard to tell. She mourned, 
doubtless, the loss of her husband, but she had reason to thank the 
I^ord then, and a thousand times in after years, that He had given to 
her so noble a son. 

James Kennedy Moorhead was born in 1806, the year his father 
])urchased and moved to the farm and ferry in Dauphin County. He 
was nine years old when his father moved to Harrisburg. During the 
two years or more of his life in Harrisburg, he enjoyed all the educa- 
tional advantages that the capital of the State then afforded. Had his 
father lived, there would have opened from this point the most flatter- 
ing prospects in almost any walk of life to which his talents and tastes 
might have inclined him. 

Rut fortune, with her accustomed fickleness, soon turned these fair 
hopes into bitter disappointment, as we have seen. After eleven years 
of age Kennedy (as he was called) never enjoyed another day of regular 
schooling. But, besides never forgetting what he had learned, he made 
the daily experiences of his life act as school-masters, so that the knowl- 
edge he gained from the farm, the tannery, the canal, the river and the 
various other enterprises in which he became interested through life, 
was broader and better and more practical than much of the knowledge 
that is only obtained in schools and school books. 

After the ferry property was sold, the widow remained on it several 
years as a tenant, and Keiuicdy, now a boy of fourteen years, undertook 

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the chief management of the farm. In a speech before an Agricultural 
Society, many years after, General Moorhead referred with evident 
satisfaction and pride to this period of his life. "I knew but little 
about it at first," he says, "but we had a neighbor named Dan 
Brubaker, who was accounted an excellent farmer, and I resolved to 
follow him as my guide. When he ploughed, I ploughed; when he 
sowed, I sowed ; when he thought his grain fit to cut, I got out my 
sickles." And thus he succeeded in gathering an abundant harvest, 
and winning quite an agricultural reputation among the farmers of the 
neighborhood. It seemed that he had now found his proper vocation ; 
his ambition was roused; and even neighbor Brubaker had to look out 
for his laurels. 

But the wheel of fortune now gave another turn, and threw him 
into a very different position. Under the advice of a maternal uncle, 
it was thought best that he should be sent to learn some regular trade. 
The tanning business was finally settled upon, and he was soon after 
apprenticed in due form to an old Quaker gentleman named Linville, 
at the Pcqua settlement in Lancaster Cbunty, who was famous for the 
excellent quality and superior finish of his leather. Mr. Linville was 
a strict and exacting, but just-minded man, and his new apprentice 
soon rose into high favor, and served out his four years to the mutual 
satisfaction of the parties. He had devoted himself in good earnest to 
the occupation which fortune seemed to have chosen for him, and at 
the age of twenty was considered a first-rate workman in the more 
difficult departments of the art. When the old gentleman came to 
deliver up his indentures, he indorsed upon them the following certifi- 
cate : — 

"To all whom it may concern. — This is to certify, that the within 
named James K. Moorhead hath served his aj)prenticeship to the end 
of the term therein mentioned in an honest, faithful manner. Given 
under my hand, this seventh day of the ninth month, 1826. 

AVM. LINVILLE." 

This "diploma" General Moorhead carefully preserved for many 
years in a handsome frame hanging up in his library, which he 
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Diiring his apprenticeship, while serving his master faithfully, he 
diligently and conscientiously employed all his spare hours in endeav- 
oring to improve his mind, and in laying up such store of knowledge 
for future use as could be gathered from the books that were within 
his reach, and could be borrowed from his surrounding neighbors. He 
not only grew during these years in physical strength, knitting his 
large and powerful frame together by hard labor, but he grew also in 
knowledoe and in intellectual vigor. 

The life of an apprentice is not usually a very exciting one, nor do 
we look for much in the life of young Moorhead during these quiet 
years of faithful service and honest toil that calls for record here. 
There is one incident, however, that occurred during this period that 
ought not to be omitted, since in its details it throws no discredit on 
cither master or apprentice, and since it gives us our first glimpse at 
the high-toned sense of honor that possessed the man at this early day 
and that remained inseparably a part of his character all through his 
long and eventful life, that gave to him a host of friends, and was to 
him a tower of strength. 

Once a year Mr. Linville gave his apprentice a few days to visit 
home. On one of these occasions a kind farmer in the neighborhood, 
named Henry Kinsor, with whom Kennedy was a favorite, loaned him 
a tine horse to ride. Mounted upon this spirited horse, the young man 
((uicklv and proudly made his way to the banks of the Susquehanna. 
No man ever loved that noble animal more truly than he then did, or 
indulged in more legitimate pride in his horsemanship. His leave of 
absence being at an end, he started back, and made about half the dis- 
tance, when his horse began to droop and show signs of giving out. 
With great difficulty he got on with him as far as Middletown, and 
there the poor beast laid himself down and died. General Moorhead 
lived to meet with many a heavy loss in after years, but we doubt if ever 
lie felt any as keenly and as strongly as he did the loss of that horse, 
lie felt that he was a ruined man. How was he ever to face the owner 
ol" the horse? How was he ever to raise money enough to pay for it? 
Shouldering the saddle and carrying the bridle in his hand, with a 
heavy heart he resumed his journey on foot. Mr. Kinsor was not a 
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Jie had a generous heart, and having satisfied himself respecting the 
circumstances, he told Kennedy not to trouble himself about it, remark- 
ing that the horse might have died if he had been at home. The 
young man though somewhat comforted by this, was by no means 
satisfied to let matters stand this way, and replied that he expected 
some day to be worth a horse, and if that day ever came he would 
most surely pay for the one that had been lost. 

Now, it was customary in that neighborhood in those days to give 
apprentices a week in harvest-time, to earn what they could. This 
week Kennedy devoted at the next harvest to Mr. Kinsor, and when 
the hands came to be paid off, remarlvcd that his services should go in 
part payment of that horse; but his noble-hearted friend said: "No! 
this week is given you that you may earn a little sjiending money, 
and 1 should feel that 1 had done a mean thing if i kept it from you." 
His wife joining in, they compelled him to take the money ; which he 
did, with a firmer resolution than ever that the horse should be paid for. 
We need hardly add that it ivas paid for out of his earliest earnings. 
Mr. Kinsor would receive barely what the horse had cost him, which 
was less than half its value. 

But this is not the end of the story. As years elapsed, James K. 
Moorhead progressed and fast became a man of wealth and influence. 
His friend had not been so fortunate. A railroad was l)uilt which pas- 
sed near his house; and one summer day a spark from a locomotive set 
fire to his barn, and both house and barn were destroyed. Mr. Moor- 
head, who by this time had left that end of the State, was living in 
Pittsburgh. He heard of his friend's misfortune and at once interested 
himself in a claim against the railroad, and after hard work succeeded 
in securing for him enough to free him from embarrassment and set 
him on his feet again, financially. The General after this, is said to 
have remarked, "^Now I really feel for the first time in my life that 
the horse has been paid for." 

The following year after the loss of the horse, Kennedy was again 
allowed time to visit home He had tried the experiment of riding, 
and did not feel inclined to repeat it. Providing himself with a good 
hickory staff, therefore, instead, he took the road one morning at day- 
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reached Lancaster; its meridian glared on him at Middletown; and 
before he had passed Harrisburg many miles, it began to throw long 
shadows across his path from the west. These shadows had deepened 
into the shades of night before he reached the little town of Halifax, 
where his mother was then living. Dragging his weary limbs to her 
door, he knocked for admittance, but received no answer. Hammering 
again and again, more clamorously, he at last drew the attention of one 
of the neighbors, who gave him the dismal information that the family 
were absent some three or four miles up the river, attending a camp- 
meeting. His aching bones and blistered feet plead hard for repose, 
but he had started to go home that day, and meant to do it. So, 
flourishing his stick once more, he started for the camp-ground, where 
he arrived about nine o'clock at night. And how far had he walked 
that day, do you suppose? Remember, it was the holiday excursion of 
an apprentice boy, going home to see his motlier. Well, the distance 
by turnpike to Harrisburg, and thence across Peter's Mountain (a for- 
midable obstacle to the traveler in those days), was just sixty -seven 
miles, which he accomplished at an expense of twelve and a half cents. 

In 1826, being now advanced to the dignity of journeyman, Mr. 
Moorhead worked for some time at his trade in Lancaster County, for 
what was then considered in that neighborhood the extraordinary 
wages of sixteen dollars a month. He was a first-rate hand at his 
trade, and large as these wages may have seemed to his neighbors and 
friends, he was not so satisfied with them as not to make the effort to do 
better. 

In 1828, two years later, Ave find him moving back to the neigh bor- 
liood where he had been born, and projecting the establishment of a 
tanyard, in connection with his brother-in-law, William Montgomery, 
at Montgomery's Ferry. A buikling was erected, vats were sunk, 
water pipes laid down, hides collected, and it seemed he was now about 
to establish himself })ermanently in that occupation. But this was not 
to be. A turning j)()int had been reached in the young man's life, and 
the first step was about to be taken in the direction in which in years 
to come he was to expend the very strength of his manhood. 

This was the period Avhen the internal improvement system as it was 
called, was beginning to stretch its arms across the State in every direc- 

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tion. The Susquehanna division of tlie great Pennsylvania Canal was 
about to be put under contract, and Mr. ]\Ioorhead and his brother-in-law 
threw in their proposal with several hundreds of others. They were 
fortunate enough to receive a small contract, which was completed in a 
few months, when Mr. Moorhead found himself in the independent 
possession of three or four hundred dollars. But he had gained some- 
thing of more value than this small sum of money. He had formed 
an acquaintance with some of the principal men concerned in the direc- 
tion of our public works, and had proved himself capable of executing 
promptly and faithfully whatever contracts might be assigned him. 
Such men were then in demand, for there were great works to be done ; 
and he soon found ample employment in his new vocation, leaving his 
tanyard to await his return ; and there it has stood Waiting till this day. 

]Mr. ]\Ioorhead was now only twenty-two years old, but he had found 
an outlet for his superabundant energy, and from that time saw in 
his own mind his adaptability to just that kind of work. As an evi- 
dence that he now felt that his fortune was in his own hands, and if 
not actually secured, at least in sight, we notice that the following year 
he returned to Lancaster County and brought back with him to his 
own home in Huntingdon, Pa., where he had taken up his residence, 
as his wife, Miss Jane Logan, whom he had learned to love in the years 
of his apprenticeship, and to whom he continued devoted and faithful 
through more than fifty years of blessed married life. They were mar- 
ried on the 17th day of December, 1829, and on December 17th, 1879, 
they were permitted to celebrate their golden wedding, amid not only 
the joy of children and grandchildren, but amid the rejoicing of a 
circle of friends so wide that congratulations came pouring in on them 
by mail and by telegraph from almost every State in the Union. Two 
years later this joy was turned into sorrow, when, for a short while, the 
beloved wife was called to go on ahead, leaving him who had been her 
strength and stay to walk the rest of the journey alone. Alone, yet not 
alone, for there were left to him two sons and three daughters, who, 
with their children and grandchildren, made the remaining years of 
his life cheerful and happy. 

But we must return to the story of his life. Ten years of unceasing 
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advancement and success in his worldly affairs, must be imagined rather 
than described. AVhatever he found to do in tlie way of contracting, 
constructing, or building, he did it with his might; he did it success- 
fully; he did it honestly. 

During his residence in Huntingdon, Mr. Moorhead served for a 
time as Supervisor on the Canal, which post he resigned for the pur- 
pose of starting a new enterprise which the exigencies of the times 
seemed to him to call for. Passengers were then carried from the east 
to Pittsburgh by stage coaches. Mr. Moorhead conceived the idea of 
turning this current of travel into the canal, by means of a line of light 
packet boats exclusively for passengers. Having enlisted Mr. William 
Colder, of Harrisburg, and other leading stage men in the project, the 
Pioneer I^ine of Packet Boats was established, and very soon realized 
the most sanguine expectations of its proprietors, so far at least as de- 
pended on drawing the travel. 

In 1836 Mr. Moorhead removed to Pittsburgh. His immediate 
object in going there was, we believe, connected with the Pioneer Line. 
But he soon found that the place was well suited to his tastes and 
talents. In the midst of her busy industries he made his home, and 
for a period of forty-three years his interests were closely connected 
with the general interests of the city of his choice. 

There is no city in our broad country more thoroughly imbued with 
the spirit of enterprise. The smoke of her furnaces, the ring of her 
hammers, and the busy hum of her thousand workshops, however 
distasteful to the mere gentleman of leisure, stimulate to the highest 
pitch the nerves and faculties of the man of action. Mr. Moorhead 
could not, from his nature, be an idle spectator of this busy scene. 
Among his early achievements here, was one which has contributed 
largely to the prosperity of his adopted city — we mean his resuscitation 
of the jSIonongahela Navigation. This noble improvement was com- 
menced in IHof), and considerable progress made in constructing the 
locks and dams; but owing to the pressure in the money market, the 
affairs of the company had fallen into hopeless ruin. The dams built 
liad been broken by the freshets, and the stock was wholly unsalable. 
At this stage Mr. Moorhead took hold of it. He organized a company 

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who agreed to furnish the capital necessary to complete the works, and 
look to the works themselves for repayment. 

They were accordingly transferred to this company on mortgage; 
within a year completed ; and so successful has been their operation, 
that they have already reverted to the original stockholders, clear of 
all incumbrances. General Moorhead was elected president on the 
completion of the works, and continued to preside over their interests 
up to the time of his death. During the triumphant tour of Mr. Clay, 
in 1847, when General Moorhead was introduced to him on board the 
boat that conveyed him down the river from Brownsville, the great 
statesman spoke with admiration of these works. "I understand, 
General," said he, "that the public are indebted to you for this splen- 
did improvement." 

A fuller and more complete account of General Moorhead's connec- 
tion with the Monongahela Navigation Company is given below, 
from the pen of Mr. William Bakewell, the present secretary of the 
company : 

MR, BAKEWELL'S SKETCH, 

"In the mouth of December, 1839, General Moorhead, with his 
brother, J, B. Moorhead, undertook the construction of the first lock 
and dam on the ISIouongahela river, and thus commenced his connec- 
tion with a great public improvement, which has been of the utmost 
benefit not only to the Monongahela valley and the city of Pittsburgh, 
but also to all the towns and cities located on the Ohio and Mississippi 
rivers. When he entered into this contract, he had, doubtless, little 
conception of the important results which were to follow his undertak- 
ing, or that the success of the enterprise would depend so largely, as it 
has done, on his energy, skill and perseverance. 

"The Monongahela Navigation Company was incorporated in the year 
1836, for the purpose of constructing a series of locks and dams on the 
Monongahela river, so as to furnish navigation from the Virginia 
State line to the city of Pittsburgh, and thus afford an outlet to the 
Ohio and Mississippi rivers for the bituminous coal found in abund- 
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"The completion of the works thus undertaken by the Moorhead 
J^rothers, together with a second lock and dam located some twelve 
miles up the river, which was successfully effected in the fall of the year 
1841, would probably have terminated the connection of General Moor- 
head with the Monongahela Navigation Company, had it not been that 
within the short period of two years thereafter the Company became 
financially embarrassed, chiefly owing to the failure of the United 
States Bank, which was one of their stockholders, so that they became 
unable to keep the work in repair. In July, 1843, a serious breach 
occurred in the first dam, which deprived the Company of the rev- 
enue from their improvement: The entire river sweeping through the 
gap soon deepened and widened the breach, until it seemed almost 
impossible to save the work from destruction. As a consequence the 
stock of the Company fell to three dollars a share, and utter ruin 
stared them in the face. Engineering works of such magnitude were 
then scarcely known, and it became a serious question in the minds of 
many whether it would be possible to maintain a slackwater improve- 
ment against the destructive effects of ice and high water. It was no 
wonder then that public confidence in the stability of the work was 
seriously impaired, and as the Company was almost bankrupt, it 
required a man to have great confidence in the possibility of engineer- 
ing skill, and possession of a large public spirit, to attempt to rescue 
tlie improvement from impending ruin. 

"In this emergency, General Moorhead and a few other citizens of 
Pittsburgh, inspired by the confidence which he always manifested in 
the ultimate success of the work, undertook not only to repair the 
breach in the dam, but also to construct a third and fourth lock and 
dam which would extend the slackwater improvement up the river to 
ih-ownsville, a distance of over fifty-five miles from Pittsburgh, taking 
the bonds and revenues of the Company in payment, and agreeing 
also to liquidate its existing debt. 

"This contract was made in November, 1843, and although the con- 
tractors were seriously delayed by an unusual succession of freshets in 
the river, they performed the astonishing feat of filling up the breach 
in the dani, wlii(;li was over forty feet in depth, and completing the two 
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intendence of Mr. J. B. Moorhead, who liad the principal cliarge of 
the work of construction. 

"The result fully warranted the confidence which had been placed by 
the Company and his associates in the foresight and indomitable 
energy of (reneral ^Moorhead. Had it not been lor him, it is very 
improbable that any capitalist Avould have risked their money in a 
work the success of which seemed so problematical. The trade on the 
river increased M'ith extraordinary rapidity, and esj)ecially was this the 
case with the coal business, the annual output of that article having 
risen from three-fourths of a million of bushels to over nine millions 
within the short period of six years. 

"In the year 1846 General Moorhead was elected President of the 
Company, in which capacity he served for thirty-eight consecutive 
years, having been re-elected in January, 1884, only two months before 
his lamented decease. 

" If, as will be seen from what has been said as to the connection of 
General Moorhead with the Monongahela Navigation Conn)any during 
the earlier years of its history, it owed its success as well as its contin- 
ued existence very largely to his foresight, experience and skill, it was 
no less indebted to his wise management and watchful care for its 
continued prosperity. He was eminently fitted for the charge of such 
work, and took the deepest interest in its success. If, as frequently 
occurred, there was any threatened danger to be averted, or any actual 
damage to be repaired, he recognized the fact that immediate action 
alone could prevent the recurrence of the disastrous experience of the 
early years of the improvement, and he was aUvays ready to meet the 
emergency. On such occasions he would be personally present by day 
and night, and if any extraordinary exertion on the part of the work- 
men was called for, he would not hesitate to lead tiiem even into the 
water, thus inspiring them with some of his resolute determination to 
save the work at whatever personal peril or inconvenience. 

"The importance of this improvement to business interests of Pitts- 
burgh and Allegheny and the neighboring towns is almost incalculable, 
to say nothing of the very great appreciation in value of the coal lauds 
bordering on the Monongahela river, and of the increase in the coal 
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tions by means of this improvement; and for all this the public are 
largely indebted to the subject of this memoir." 

But Mr. Moorhead's attention was not confined to one object. It 
would take long to tell of the locks, bridges, dams, reservoirs, and 
other works which he constructed in those days, in Pennsylvania, Ken- 
tucky, Indiana, etc. Xor is it necessary to recount their history. Is 
it not written in the chronicles of a score of municipal associations, in 
the above-named States ? 

But manufacturing in divers forms is the chief occupation of the 
men of Pittsburgh. It seems impossible for an enterprising stranger 
to breathe her smoky atmos])here, without soon feeling a desire to kindle 
new fires of his own. Mr. INIoorhead, accordingly, in connection with 
two or three other gentlemen, established the Union (Cotton Factory, in 
Allegheny city, in the year 1840, and being appointed chief manager 
by the firm, built himself a house close by, and settled his family there. 
This factory was enlarged from time to time, and for several years 
shared the checkered fortunes of all similar establishments in that 
region. The great problem of the proper relation between capital and 
labor remains yet to be solved. It is a fair and interesting question for 
discussion. General Moorhead, however, was connected with the sub- 
ject in all relations. His own experience taught him to know the 
heart of the laboring man ; and since he has had a dollar to invest, his 
capital has always been used for the employment of labor. In the 
spring of 1849, after sundry vexatious suspensions, the factory had just 
fairly resumed operations on a basis satisfactory to all parties, when it 
took fire one evening, after the hands had all left (from what cause has 
never been explained), and in a few minutes was reduced to ashes, with 
all its contents, and also with General Moorhead's dwelling, which 
stood close by. The General was absent from home, and returned next 
morning to find his fugitive family at the house of a friend, and his 
home and pr{)})erty a mass of smoking ruins. 

The insurance on the factory, we believe, was barely sufficient to 
discharge its outstanding obligations, leaving the large investment (one- 
lialf i>i" which was rjencral Moorhead's) a total loss. This was a heavy 
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necessary to recover from it. Nevertheless, we find him in the follow- 
ing year concerned as a partner in the Xovelty Works, at Pittsburgh, 
and preparing to build himself a new, and, as he hoped, a permanent 
dwelling-house. 

The new dwelling was built, furnished, and embellished on a most 
liberal scale, and he was beginning to congratulate himself that his 
family was again snugly settled, when it was suddenly announced to 
him one day (the coldest day of January, 1853, and not a year after 
he had taken possession,) while the family were at dinner, that his house 
was on fire. In consequence of a defective flue, the fire had caught in 
the upper story, and had been burning some time before it was dis- 
covered. In such brief time as fire takes to do its work, he as^ain saw 
his home reduced to naked walls. We may here add, however, that in 
a few days workmen were on the ground, and in six months' time he 
was re-established in the premises, which were considerably improved 
in the rebuilding. 

In 1838 Mr. Moorhead received from his friend, (xovernor Porter, a 
commission as Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania, which accounts for 
the title by which he was commonly known. He resigned this office, 
however, we believe, soon after he received the appointment. 

We have seen General Moorhead actively concerned as a contractor, 
as a manufacturer, and as a politician. Yet all this will give the 
reader but a very inadequate idea of his multifarious engagements. 
Few enterprises, indeed, of moment to the community in which he 
lived, were projected to which he was not expected and found ready to 
lend a helping hand. 

To his foresight, energy, and public spirit, the success of the Tele- 
graphic enterprise in this country is largely indebted. The discoveries 
of science are fruitless, unless aided and carried into eflPect by financial 
enterprise and practical skill. While the world at large was doubt- 
ing. General Moorhead was among the earliest of those who stepped 
forward and, with liberal spirit, advanced their credit and capital to- 
wards testing the practical merits of ^Nloi'se's discovery, by establishing 
a telegraphic communication between the Atlantic and AVestern cities. 
His example stimulated others. An association was formed at Pitts- 
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between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, organized as the Atlantic and Ohio 
Telegraph Company, and a line between Pittsburgh and Louisville, 
organized as the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville Company. Of 
these companies General Moorhead was for some years the president. 
The interest manifested by him in establishing these companies, organ- 
izing and improving their administration, so as to afford the utmost 
Ijenefit of telegraphic communication, was an important service to 
telegraphic science, and to the public. And in this he exhibited 
his leading; characteristic of devotino- the time, enerirv, and means with 
which he was blessed to useful and honorable pursuits, that tend to 
improve the country and advance the interests of the society in which 
he lived. 

Many of the General's friends regard his early connection with the 
Morse first telegraph lines, which afterwards, with others, became in- 
corporated into the great Western Union, as one of the best proofs of 
his foresight, as well as a good example of that generous public spirit 
that always seemed to possess and control him. The prominence of 
the ])lace he held at that early day, in connection with the new but 
advancing system of telegraphing, is evidenced by the fact that the 
third number of Volume One of the '^Xational Telegraph Beview," 
})ublished in 1853, in Philadelphia, edited by James D. Eeid, devotes 
its first article, of ten pages, to a biographical sketch of General J. K. 
Moorhead, and accompanies the article with a lithograph likeness of the 
(xeneral, as a frontispiece to that number of the magazine. 

It is proper to say that the present sketch has been largely taken 
from Mr. lleid's article, although omissions and amendments have 
been freely made, wherever it has suited the purpose of the compiler. 

Jt may be mcII for us to j)ausc here in our narrative, in the year LS5o, 
when the (Jcneral was forty-seven years old, and thirty years before 
Ills death, and listen to what was thought of him and said about him by 
those who knew him l)est. AVe quote the conclusion of Mr. Reid's 
article : 

•'Tlic <';ire<T wo ha\»' tliu-^ been tracing will no doubt l)c looked upon 
:is ;iii niiiiHMii 1\ .~ucc(.'s,-riil o\)v. Yrt lew men lia\i' li;nl a larger share 
than lie ot" tlio-c calamities wiiicli, in \aiioiis forms, beset and waylay 
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from a position of most flattering promise, and compelled for many 
years to tread the humblest walks of life. We have seen him twice 
burned out of house aud home, and losing in a moment the accumula- 
tion of years of industry. His business operations have not alwavs 
been successful; well-laid plans have been thwarted by capricious casual- 
ties; entangling alliances have repeatedly involved him in heavy losses; 
he has encountered the bitterness of opposition; he has felt the sting (tf 
ingratitude, and he has been called upon to yield up treasures which 
were enshrined in his heart's dearest affections. Hopes proudly cher- 
ished have been blasted forever, and he still bends in sorrow over a 
tomb where the fondest ambition of a father lies buried. 

" But adversity, however grievous and hard to be borne, ' hath yet 
(for all who are not obstinately blind) a precious jewel in its head.' 
The spiritual muscles, no less than the physical, are developed and 
strengthened by rigid discipline; and the death of loved ones seems to 
be an agency often employed by Providence to lure the affections from 
earth to heaven, for where the treasure is, there will the heart be also. 
General Moorhead was always of a religious turn of mind, but it was 
only a few years ago that he made an open profession of his faith. He 
is now a member, in fidl communion, of the Third Presbyterian Church, 
at Pittsburgh, of which his well-l)eloved friend, Dr. Riddle, is pastor. 

" It is clear, from what we have said, that the leading traits of General 
Moorhead's character are strength and manliness. He has been con- 
cerned in many arduous and difficult engagements, and has thus far 
been found equal to every emergency. When he puts his hand to an 
enterprise, there is a spontaneous feeling, wherever he is known, that 
something is about to be done. When he has once defined his position, 
no one feels a doubt as to where he may afterwards be found. This 
sinewy tone of character is well supported by a corresponding physical 
development. Full six feet high, and weighing (without corpulence) a 
round two hundred, his bodily strength is very great. In his youth he 
was passionately fond of athletic sports, and many a feat of wrestling, 
leaping, running, and pitching the bar might be told in proof of his 
personal prowess. Nature has given him a large share of combative- 
ness, which, however (as is proverbially the case with the strong), is 
tempered with great good-nature. But when he conceives his own 

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rights, or the rights of those he feels bound to protect, to be invaded or 
threatened, no man ever threw himself with a heartier good-will into a 
contest; and few men are less likely than he to come off second best on 
such occasions. This intrepidity of spirit is the natural foundation of 
great firmness of character; for however clear and strong the reasoning 
faculties, there is no certainty that their decrees will be executed if the 
heart be faint. 

"Of that emulation which stimulates a man to do his best on all occa- 
sions, and excel, if possible, in all his undertakings. General Moorhead 
possesses an ample share. He has a decided antipathy to being beat 
(and he has not always escaped that vexation), wliether the game be a 
great or small one; if merely taking a pleasure-ride ou the highway, he 
does not like to be passed. As a business man, this spirit finds its pro- 
per development in the energetic prosecution of the various interests in 
which he is engaged. His capital, however, is not hoarded, but always 
reinvested, and he practices an enlarged and habitual liberality, which 
realizes the words of the Proverb, 'There is that scattereth and yet 
increaseth.' That he possesses a sterling integrity of character, and a 
high-minded and liberal spirit in his dealings, is sufficiently attested 
l)y the confidence so generally reposed in him. 

" We have seen that General ]Moorhead's early education was lim- 
ited. To read, write, and cipher, we believe, was all he ever owed 
to the schools. It has been truly said, however, that men are more 
educated by action than by books. With a habit of observation and 
free intercourse with well-informed men, he could not fail to have 
learned something of whatever is most important to be known. Nor 
does his want of early education prevent his clear thoughts from finding 
appropriate expression. A man's style of speaking or writing depends, 
in i'act, much more upon natural aptitude than on rhetorical culture; 
and hence we often find men of elaborate education, and who have 
spent their lives in intellectual pursuits, writing and speaking confus- 
edly and awkwardly. When the perception of order is wanting, no 
amount of instruction, it seems, will remedy the defect, and where it is 
Ibund, it goes far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless. 
General Moorhead, accordingly, writes with much clearness, conciseness, 
and vigor. Without any pretensions to oratory, he is yet an efficient 

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debater in the numerous public assemblies in which he is called to take 
part. Xo man is better listened to, because no man strikes more direct- 
ly at the heart of his subject, and few are more likely to throw new 
light on the question in debate, and to carry opinion with them — which, 
after all, is the chief end of oratory. The social habits of General 
Moorhead are such as always render him personally popular. Few 
have a keener appreciation of humor, or can tell a good story more 
gracefully. 

"But something more than all this is wanting to complete a man's 
character. The qualities we have been speaking of belong chieflv to 
the head. What, it may be asked, have we to say of the heart ? But 
here we find ourselves warned to pause. We seem to hear a voice say- 
ing : ' Come not nigh hither. Put oif thy shoes from off thy feet, for 
the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.' We shall not attemjit 
to intrude into the private sanctuary of the living; but our sketch would 
be imperfect, and its best moral would be wanting, if we failed to record 
that the world has here another proof that prosperity does not necessarily 
engender pride; that the cares of extensive business do not always 
harden the heart; that a man may grow rich without growing at the 
same time narrow, and that extensive business connections are not in- 
compatible with the relations of private friendship and domestic affection. 
How from the iirst days of his prosperity he carried his widowed mother 
and her family with him ; how he pushed forward the younger members, 
and has never ceased to exert his best influence for their promotion ; 
how he has nourished those who have needed his care; how in the midst 
of his complicated engagements he has never wanted time to write mes- 
sages of consolation, or lost an opportunity to pay friendly visits to 
those whom he could thus cheer and comfort, — we forbear to write 
those things more fully here; but they are written on many grateful 
hearts, and, what is more important, they are doubtless written in the 
great account-book on high. 

"As General Moorhead is still in the prime of life and the full vigor 
of his faculties (1853), we may reasonably hope that many years may' 
yet be allowed him, for the enlargement of his usefulness, and for the 
enjoyment of his ample and increasing fortune and his well-earned 
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When the above tribute was written General Moorliead was in 
the very jtriine of iiis manhood. The hold he had then on the eon- 
fidenee of all who knew him he kept to the end. The influence he 
wiehled, instead of diminishing, increased with his years, and his 
circle of friends, which was then large, continued from year to year to 
grow wider and wider. 

From 1853 to 1858 we may think of him as a diligent and success- 
ful man of business, not couHning himself alone to that which might 
l>ring to him some immediate personal profit, but ready at all times to 
enter into any proposed scheme, which, in his judgment, would in any 
way advance the general prosperity of the city of his adoption. From 
the very beginning of his residence in Pittsburgh, he was to be ranked 
as one of her leading and most public-S])irited citizens. 

8uch a man, from his very make-up, could hardly be expected to 
remain an uninterested spectator of passing events as they presented 
themselves in the current history of his times. His active mind led 
him to take an interest in everything that was going on; his super- 
abundant energy led him to want to take part in everything that was 
being done. Such being the case, we are not surprised to find that 
from almost the beginning of his career he took a lively and laudable 
interest in political atfairs. He was not a politician in the present accept- 
ance of that term. He was too open and fearless a fighter for principle 
to allow himself ever to plan and scheme for any personal gain. In 
early life the General ^vas a Democrat, but he was always a staunch 
])rotectionist. He was present at the birth of the Republican party in 
Pittsburgh, and by contributing heartily to it in its infancy, his wide 
influence and known integrity, rightly secured to himself no little credit 
for its subsequent brilliant success. 

In 1858 he was nominated by the Republicans as a candidate for 
Congress in his district. His popularity was so great that from the 
time of his nomination there was little doubt of his election. A laro-e 
majority over his oi)i)onent was a substantial proof of the high esteem 
in which he was held by the ])eople. 

On March llh, 1S5!>, he took his scat in the Thirtv-sixth Congress, 
and performed his task so well that he was sent back for two more con- 
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Avish to retire, but was nominated and re-elected a<!:ainst his preferences; 
and again, against his protestations, he Avas returned for a fifth term. 
When brought forward for the sixth time, he peremptorily refused to 
be a candidate, and so earnest was he in declining that his friends de- 
cided it prudent to permit him to retire, although his election, in the 
event of a nomination, did not admit of a doubt. 

General Moorhead was invaluable in Congress, by reason of his large 
experience in business affairs, his knowledge of the material inter- 
ests of the country, his intimate acquairitance witii the wants of the 
community, liis unflinching honor, and good comuion sense. He 
was chairman of the Committee on ^Manufactures for three sessions, and 
was a member of the Committee on AVays and Means, and Naval Aifjiirs. 
Through these positions he gained a national reputation. Some impor- 
tant legislation now in force, emanated from his fertile brain. Among 
the many features of the recent tariff laws, until the more recent re- 
vision, were those placed there through the adoption of what was 
known as the Moorhead tariff bill. 

In 1869 and 1880 General Moorhead was ])ut forward as a candi- 
date for United States Senator. 

He was chairman of the Republican County Committee during the 
Garfield campaign, and succeeded well in harmonizing the then dis- 
cordant factions. His last appearance in politics was in the capacity 
of chairman of the large independent meeting held in Library Hall, 
during the AVolfe campaign. This was in 1882. Early in 1883, the 
first symptoms of his last sickness began to manifest themselves, and 
on March the 6th, 1884, at half past 10, a. m., he departed this life, 
in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 

In addition to what lias been said concerning his political life, the 
following from the ])en of Mr. Clinton Lloyd, who was at one time 
chief clerk of the United States House of Representatives, gives a very 
just and truthful estimate of his character, influence and career: 

MR. LLOYD'S SKETCH. 

'•There is a saying of somebody to the effect that the world never 
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doubtless, from the fact tliat true greatness is always unobtrusive; and 
so many a man, fitted and furnished by nature with all the qualities 
requisite to win the loftiest distinction, passes quietly through the 
world, his great qualities all unknown, because the occasion has never 
arisen to bring them into their full exercise. Some men of brilliant 
genius never become known beyond a small circle of intimate acquaint- 
ances, to whom their wonderful worth is alone revealed. Others 
become known to a wider circle, through the contact of business, or 
political relations, and are sure to win the esteem and honor of their 
associates. Of this latter class was General Moorhead, whose qualities 
of character, had they been as well-known to the public at large, as to 
those who knew him more intimately, would have won for him the 
highest honors the nation had it in its power to bestow. 

"General Moorhead was no politician in the ordinary acceptation of 
the word. He was no office-seeker; but always willing to give of his 
time, infiuence and substance to the furtherance of the public interests. 
Previous to his election to Congress, he had filled but few and unim- 
portant public positions. He was Postmaster of Pittsburgh, under the 
administration of Martin Van Buren, and was Adjutant-General of the 
State of Pennsylvania, under appointment from Governor Porter. 
Nevertheless, there was no man in the State who wielded a greater 
political influence for many years than General ^Moorhead. Though 
he held no position of prominence himself, he had a good deal to say 
about who should fill the positions; and many a one could trace the 
dawn of his political importance to General Moorhead's influence with 
the a})pointing power. Notable among these was Judge Jeremiah S. 
])la('k, who owed his first judicial ap[)ointment to the personal friend- 
ship of General Moorhead, and the latter's influence over Governor 
Porter. Indeed, so strong was this influence, that Porter himself was 
accustomed, facetiously, to address Moorhead as 'Governor of the 
West.' lie virtually coutrolled all the patronage of the State execu- 
tive, under Porter, in that portion of the State west of the Allegheny 
Mountains. 

"But it is u])on his Congressional record that the political fame of 
(reneral ]\[oorhead will most securely rest. For ten successive years, 
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the most important industrial districts in the United States, with a 
fidelity, zeal and energy that have never been surpassed. A distin- 
guished Senator of the United States, who had served with General 
Moorhead in the House, once said of him, publicly, 'He is the best 
local representative I have ever known.' He would have been a man 
of mark in any sphere of life. His distinguishing trait, I think, in 
political as well as in private life was his manliness. He never prevar- 
icated, equivocated, or shuffled on any question, and nobody was ever in 
doubt as to where Moorhead stood. He possessed the very rare faculty 
of being able to say ' no' when truth required it, and could say it without 
giving personal offence. He was a man, too, who never flustered nor 
blustered ; was never in a hurry ; never, apparently at least, overburdened 
with work; never too busy to attend to the claims of charity, or even of 
society, but moved forward in all his enterprises and duties with the 
quiet power of a deep flowing river; no noise, no 'fuss and feathers,' no 
nonsense of any kind whatever. And he accomplished what he under- 
took, with the least possible waste of power, leaving the impression that 
there was in him a great reserve force that had never been called into 
operation, simply because of the want of any occasion grand enough for 
its full exercise. During the early stages of the rebellion, when a con- 
gressman's duties could hardly be inventoried, he found time for every- 
thing; whether to urge the interests of his constituents before Cabinet 
or Congress; or look after a wounded soldier in field or hospital; or 
attend the funeral of a slain officer; or intercede for some unlucky fel- 
low condemned by the military law to be shot; or to aid some stricken 
wife or mother to reach the bedside of a dying husband or son ; no 
matter what the duty. General Moorhead never shirked it, or sought 
excuse for its non-perforraauce. During his congressional career, he 
stood high in the confidence of his associate members, and in the execu- 
tive departments. Mr. Lincoln gladly availed himself of his practical 
suggestions, and his previous relations to Mr. Stanton, who had been 
his private counsel in ante bellimi days, gave him special intiucnce 
with the War Department, so that it came to l)e generally understood 
that if anything was wanted from that department it was important to 
secure Moorhead's services ; and hence he was l)csicgcd, not only l»y 
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all the States. And the patience with which he bore it all was a 
veritable marvel. 

"PI is great physical strength combined with the ruggedness of his 
mental qnalities to give him political snccess, and stood him in good 
stead at the time of his entrance into Congress, Avhen the galleries 
were filled with armed scowlers, and muscle was as much in demand 
as brain to make the Southern lire-eaters keep the peace, even on the 
floor of the House. An incident which occurred at that time illustrates 
this, while it serves further to show the character of the man. A 

member, who, to avoid personalities, may be called JNIr. , from 

one of the Southern States, was one day in conversation with General 
Moorhead, at the latter's desk, during a session of the House. They 

both became somewhat excited, until, finally, iVfr. called the 

General a liar. He quietly replied, 'That remark only serves to con- 
firm the impression I had previously formed of you, that you are an 
unmitigated blackguard; that is all I have to say to you now, but 
when the House adjourns I shall have something more to say.' Mr. 

retired to his own side of the chamber, and presently a colleague 

of his came over to Greneral Moorhead's desk and said, 'General, you 

and Mr. have had some altercation, and he used an expression 

that he regrets, and will apologize if you give him the opportunity.' 
'Yes,' said Moorhead, ' I know that he will; he's got to.' ' Well,' said 
the member, 'he complains that you gave the first occasion of offence, 
and under the rules of the code you ought at least to afford the opportu- 
nity for an explanation.' Moorhead replied, 'I said nothing to j ustify him 
in using the language he did, and as for your code, I don't know anything 
about it, nor recognize its rules as binding uj)on me. I have got a 
short code of my own, which anybody can understand, and this insult 
must either be wi[)ed out, or taken back. It is this: if a man insults 
me, he has got to apologize.' The apology was nuide and that prospec- 
tive duel haj)j)ily averted. 

"General Moorhead, during his terms of congressional service, was 
chairman of the special Gommittee of Armories, to which position pub- 
lic sentiment called him, in fitting recognition of his personal services in 
j)revcnting the shipment of arms from the armory at Pittsburgh, by 
Floyd, secretary of war, for tlie benefit of Southern rebels. He also 

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served on the important Committees of Naval Affairs, Commerce, and 
Manufactures, of which last he was also chairman, and on the Ways 
and Means Committee. He possessed the confidence of his colleagues 
from Pennsylvania, who always recognized his rugged honesty and 
])ractical sense, and gave their highest testimony to his worth, by 
unanimously joining in a recommendation to General Grant, to appoint 
him a member of his first Cabinet, and which General Grant made a 
grievous mistake in disregarding. 

"General Moorhead was not by any means a brilliant speaker, nor 
given to much speaking in the House. He suffered somewhat from want 
of a finished education, but ])ossessed the happy faculty of saying what 
he had to say in a few strong, terse sentences, that went right to the 
marrow of the question, and which never failed to convey his meaning 
without the possibility of a mistake. 

"The following extracts from a speech delivered in 1804, in reply to 
one of his Democratic colleagues from Pennsylvania, are fair specimens 
of his general style. 

'My colleague began his speech by reminding us, in glowing terms, 
of the happy and prosperous state of the country about eight years 
since, when he left these halls. He left two years before Mr. Buch- 
anan became president. What was its condition when Mr. Buchanan 
handed over the government to Mr. Lincoln ? Why is my colleague 
silent as to the pregnant fact, that when Mr. Buchanan retired, the gloom 
was such that the mere remembrance of it comes like an evil shadow 
over the heart of every patriot ? My colleague, in a speech of twenty- 
nine pages, says not one word in denunciation of rebel insults and out- 
rages, nor does he show any sympathy with those of his oun neigh- 
bors whose blood has enriched every battle field in defence of their 
country, and whose bones are before Richmond and Charleston, at 
Antietam, Gettysburg, Yicksburg and Chattanooga; and whose heroic 
valor has protected his home and mine from threatened invasion by 
his late political friends. Nor has he any charges to make against 
anybody, except of madness and folly against the peo])le, and railing 
against the Government, the Quakers, and the Abolitionists. The 
rebellion is tenderly mentioned as an ill-judged rebellion — no crime in 
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guess as to time and result. Sir: — this rebellion was a cold blooded, 
premeditated, infomous attempt of ambitious, desperate and wicked 
conspirators to destroy the Union, overthrow free government, estab- 
lish a sectional one over the southern portion of it, and pave the way 
for an aristocratic, or monarchic form of government through Europe- 
an intrigue. The man who, in the loyal States, tolerates or symjja- 
thizes with it, or fails to check the movement, would, in revolutionary 
days, have been denominated a traitor. The man who halts in his 
fidelity, who quibbles about this technicality or that, Mdio aids the 
rebels, by denying the power of the Government to suppress the rebel- 
lion, should be despised as an Arnold who would betray his country. 
The great question of the hour is, not by Avhat process the present con- 
dition of things has been reached, but how to suppress the rebellion ; 
how to beat back our rebel foes ; how to save our people from s})olia- 
tion and slaughter; our country from division; our Government from 
overthrow — duties in whose presence every other duty hides its dimin- 
ished head. I have, Mr. Speaker, uniformly observed that the men 
who waste their energies in discussing the past, are least willing to 
meet the responsibilities of the present, or rise to the stature which it 
demands. 

^On every hand the enemy was busy; the Government silent and 
indifferent ; bound hand and foot by its Attorney General, who, nar- 
rowly paring down the power of the Government to protect itself, 
advised the President that 'the Union must utterly fail, at the moment 
when Congress shall arm one part of the people against the other for 
any purpose beyond that of merely protecting the general Govern- 
ment in the exercise of its proper constitutional functions.' AVhen, 
however, the overt act was committed, the long impending blow 
struck, the dignity of the Government insulted, its rights inv^aded, 
its power defied, and the flag fired upon, the patriotism of the 
people, long dormant, and by many supposed to be extinct, Avas elec- 
trified into life with a giant's power. The instincts of the people strip- 
])ed off the wretched sophistries of the ex- Attorney General; the heart 
of the people burst into life, burning with a sense of shame, injustice 
and Avrong which timid and faithless counsels had too long permitted, 
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The Union plotted against and deemed not worthy of preservation at 
once asserted its supremacy over the national heart, and safe from the 
intrigues of the pliant and the expedients of the cowardly, became a 
national divinity, which frpm that day to this has called forth the 
willing homage of every true American heart.' 

** General Moorhead was one of the bravest spirits that ever lived. 
He had the courage of his convictions, and never hesitated to give 
expression to them, when occasion demanded, and that too with a man- 
ner and in tones of voice that precluded answer, and at the same time 
disarmed resentment. And this prince of men, in true manliness and 
moral courage, with all the weight of cares that pressed upon him, had 
the rollicking freshness of a boy, and a quiet sense of humor that noth- 
ing could ever suppress. His laugh was good as a feast, and withal 
he was, like all truly great men, as simple-hearted as a child. The 
writer can never forget, nor ever recall without tears, his relation of a 
temptation that was once presented to him for the advancement of his 
political fortunes, by some over-zealous friends. It involved no posi- 
tively unworthy act on General Moorhead's part, but asked onlv his 
consent to the use, by others in his behalf, of questionable means. His 
clear mental vision quickly penetrated the thin disguise, and his moral 
nature instantly recoiled. Said he, in speaking of it afterwards, 'I 
knew if I assented there would be something in here,' pointing to his 
heart, 'that would hurt.' Nothing could surpass the simple but sub- 
lime manner in which he spoke that brief sentence. 

"There was in Washington, during the period of General Moorhead's 
service in Congress, an association known as the Loyal Pennsylvanians, 
of wdiich he was the president. Its purpose, in its original organiza- 
tion, was to supplement at the ballot box the efforts of the Union army 
to crush the rebellion in the field. This object being finally accom- 
plished, it was thought that its powers might still be made subservient 
for good in the settlement of the grave questions which had grown out 
of the war, and it was accordingly remodeled with a view to that pur- 
pose. General Moorhead was re-elected as its president, and the senti- 
ment of the association towards him was well voiced in an address by 
the then Chief Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, 
who had been selected to welcome its president-elect, and who said : 

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' General Moorliead, sir : — The Association of Loyal Pennsylvanians 
have designated me, as tlieir organ, to formally advise you of your re- 
election as their presiding officer, and, in tlieir name, to invite your 
acceptance of the position thus tendered — a duty that 1 the more 
cheerfully assume because it is in entire harmony with my own feelings 
of personal regard. In the change which the current of events has 
rendered necessary in the organization of the association, or the light 
of experience has suggested as improvements, they have not thought 
it wM)uI<l be any improvement to change their presiding officer. They 
could not fail to recognize in you, sir, not only a representative of 
Pennsylvania, but a representative Pennsylvanian — one thoroughly iden- 
tified with all her great industrial interests — whose energy in the 
development of her mighty resources, the waters of the Monongahela 
grandly attest 

'As they roll mingling with his fame forever.' 

Nor could they be blind, sir, to your eminent patriotism and unswerv- 
ing loyalty. The great law of compensation never found a more 
fitting illustration than in the position of Pennsylvania in this rebel- 
lion. While she must suffer under the everlasting reproach of having 
permitted treason to rear its horrid head unrebuked, through the imbe- 
cility of one of her sons, she can claim the proud pre eminence of having 
given it its first decided check in its effort to strip the North of its arms, 
l)y the iron nerve and determined patriotism of another; and while she 
has consigned the one to an obscurity, nothing less than a living death, 
her loyal citizens, resident in the nation's capital, have gathered here 
to-night to do honor to the other.'" 

LAST HOURS, 

At tiie time of his death he was President of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, President of the Board of Directors of Allegheny Cemetery, 
{'resident of the Monongahela Navigation Company, Chairman of the 
Executive Committee of West Peuua. Hospital, Trustee in Western 
University, Trustee in Western Theological Seminary, President of 
the Ohio River Commission, member of the Board of Trustees of 
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Dumb, Trustee in the Peoples Savings Bank of Pittsburgli, etc. The 
evening papers on the day of his death, and the dailies of the followino- 
morning, all published full accounts of his long and useful public 
career. The sum of it is, that having faithfully "served his own gen- 
eration, by the will of Ood he fell on sleep." A long life, a promi- 
nent and prosperous career, an honored name, an unsullied character, a 
peaceful and painless death, is all that anyone can well attain to in this 
world, for it is about all the good this world can give. To all this he 
did fully attain. A peculiar and rare blessing was granted to him that 
very few children of mortality ever receive. He died, as we know, at 
the advanced age of seventy-eight, and yet he knew comparatively 
nothing of old age. Friends who may not have seen him for some 
years before his death, on reading the fact that he had almost reached 
four score, might think of him as decrepit with the infirmities and 
bowed with the weight of his years; but those who up to within one 
short year of his end were familiar with his stalwart and rugged form, 
never for a moment thought of looking on him as an old man. He 
was all his life-time almost a stranger to sickness and pain. The story 
of his last illness and decease may be briefly told : 

Early in 1882 he came home from a short trip to Washington City 
not feeling as well as usual. He complained of weakness, a very 
unusual feeling for him. With his strong will he strove hard to 
recover his wonted strength. A trip for a few weeks to Old Point 
Comfort brought him home again not feeling very much benefited. 

Elected as delegate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church, he started in May to Saratoga, but only got as far as Philadel- 
phia, when his physician ordered his return, on the ground that he was 
losing weight and strength too rapidly not to give more serious atten- 
tion to his diet and possible recovery. During the summer he remain- 
ed in Pittsburgh, at his home on Centre avenue, occasionally riding out 
in his carriage, either to his office on Grant street, or to some point of 
l)ublic interest, or to the house of some friend. These trips became 
shorter, and were taken at longer intervals as his strength contiinied to 
decline, until on the first Sabbath in November, by a strong effort of his 
will, after an absence of several months, he braced himself up once more 
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family, had worshiped so long and so often in days and years gone by. 
This was not only his last visit to the house of God, but it was the 
very last time he left his own home. 

Confined first to his house, then to his room, and finally to his bed, 
little by little the "earthly house of this tabernacle was dissolved," 
until on the Qth of March, the temple of his body being no longer tena- 
ble, his immortal spirit transferred its abode to the temple of God, to 
"an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 

At the beginning of his sickness, the fact that he had never known 
what it was to be sick ; the fact that he had always led the very busiest 
of lives ; the fact that with his superabundant energy and courage he 
had been accustomed to accomplish almost everything he had ever 
undertaken in life, made it very hard for him to bring his mind to the 
conclusion that there was no way out of his trouble. As a consequence, 
in the first stages of his sickness he struggled hard to recover. He 
fought for his life, and fought bravely, too ; but all in submission to 
the Divine ordering. There was never in his heart one rebellious feel- 
ing, and when after alternate symptoms that were first encouraging and 
then discouraging, there finally settled over him the conviction that 
the struggle was useless, that it was his Master's will that he should 
go, the sweetest of submission reigned in his breast, and the most touch- 
ing spirit of patience and gentleness completel}' controlled his strong 
and manly soul. 

He died as he lived, in the full faith of the gospel of the Son of God. 
He left to us and to his children, and his grandchildren, and his great- 
grandchildren, no richer legacy than this precious assurance that — 

" Jesus can make a dying bed 
Feel soft as downy pillows are." 

General Moorhcad died on Thursday, and was not l)uried until the 
Moriday following. The intervening Sabbath was the regular Com- 
muni(»n Sabbath at the Third Church. The services Avere made pecu- 
liarly tender and solemn, not only by the fact of his death, of which the 
congregation were reminded by the heavily draped family pew, and 
the vacant Klder's chair, also dra])ed ; Init also by the fact of which 
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in which he was so accustomed .to take part with them, his mortal 
remains were even then lying unburied in his late earthly home, and 
his ransomed spirit was holding sweet communion with the Saviour, in 
those palaces of Light where "the smile of the Lord is the feast of 
the soul." 

FUNERAL SERVICES. 

The last tributes before consigning the body of General J. K. ^Nloor- 
head to the grave were held in the Third Presbyterian Church, Sixth 
avenue. Services were held at General ^Nloorhead's late residence, at 
half-past nine o'clock, at which only the immediate family and friends 
were present. Rev. Dr. Cowan, General Moorhead's pastor, read a 
short selection from the Scriptures, and then led in an earnest and 
feeling prayer for God's l)lessing on the stricken family. At the 
church the only reminder of the sad occasion was the pulpit heavily 
draped in sombre black, and the sorrow-stricken countenances of those 
present and the tears that welled from their eyes. The Moorhead 
family pew was draped in mourning, and in it was a magnificent floral 
piece, a large bouquet of white roses, lilies and ferns, with a sheaf of 
wheat and a sickle of flowers at the base. This tribute came from the 
ladies of the church. Half of the centre block of pews had been 
reserved for the family and friends and for the members of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce. The remainder of the large church was completely 
filled shortly after ten o'clock. While the organ under Prof. Gittings' 
touch was pealing out the sobbings of a requiem, and the mournful 
tollings of the Trinity Church bell added to the solemnity of the scene, 
the members of the Chamber of Commerce, with bands of crape on 
their arms, marched into the church in a body and took the seats 
assigned them. At half-past ten o'clock the funeral cortege entered the 
church in the following order : Messrs. F. R. Brunot and William 
Bakewell ; Alexander Bradley and Daniel Bushnell ; Jos. F. Griggs 
and William Thaw ; Judge Ewing. Then came ihe coffin, borne by 
Messrs. W. D. Wood, Charles E. Speer, Charles J. Clarke, J. B. Scott, 
R. B. Carnahan, J. W. Chalfant, Captain R. C. Gray, and ^L B. 
Suvdaiu. The family of deceased then came. The coffin, which was 
covered with Wack broadcloth, and a wreath of lilies of the valley on 

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the lid, was placed in front of the pulpit, with the floral evidences of 
esteem and affection surrounding it. The Chamber of Commerce 
tribute was a large arch of tea roses, lilies of the valley and other 
flowers intermingled with smilax. Beneath the arch was a representa- 
tion of the setting sun, made of flowers and surrounded by laurel. 

The services were participated in by Rev. Dr. W. J. Reid, Pastor of 
the Fourth United Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. S. H. Kellogg, 
Professor of Theology in the Western Theological Seminary, Rev. J. 
M. Richmond, of the Shady Side Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. 
E. P. Cowan, Pastor of the Third Church. 

The Rev. Dr. Cowan began the services by reading the Scripture 
beginning : " I am the Resurrection and the Life," and ending with : 
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, 
saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works 
do follow them." The quartette, Miss Wallace, Mrs. Scott, and Messrs. 
Bussmau and Edwards, sang Hymn 992, "My Jesus, as Thou wilt," 
music by Weber. The Rev. Mr. Richmond led in prayer, acknowl- 
edging God's hand in the circumstances of this time, and that he would 
bless to all the example left by him who has gone before. He closed 
with an earnest appeal that those especially bereaved should be com- 
forted in this season of gloom, and that the lesson of General Moor- 
head's life should be taken to heart by all. Dr. Cowan read Hymn 
771, "My faith looks up to Thee," which was sung by the choir. 
Dr. Reid then spoke as follows : 

ADDRESS OF REV. WILLIAM J. REID, D, D. 

The great mission of our holy Christianity is to save souls, but it 
also comes within its province to wipe away the tears of sorrow. 
"Comfort ye, comfort ye My people," was God's command to His 
prophets. " Let not your heart be troubled ; ye believe in God, believe 
also in Me," was a part of the Saviour's message to His distressed dis- 
ciples on the night on which He was betrayed. And we need comfort. 
Trouble comes, hopes are blasted, sickness visits us, death enters our 
homes ; and our stricken hearts cry for comfort. We stand on the lonely 
shore, we. hear tlic waves of the ocean mournfully dashing, we bid 



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farewell to those who are departing for the land beyond, we watch them 
with tear-dimmed eyes till we can see them no more ; and Ave long for 
some consolation to touch and calm our spirits. To-day we need 
comfort, we are standing on the shore of eternity ; the last fareXvells 
have been spoken ; a community, a congregation and a family have 
been bereaved ; to what comforter shall we turn ? Is there any conso- 
lation which will fill the soul with resignation and peace? 

Political honor will not avail. In the presence of death, earthly 
laurels wither and fade. The applause of the multitude does not 
inspire the bereaved with hope. It gives us pleasure to lay a tribute of 
respect to-day on the coffin of one who did his political duties well. 
In those times which tried the souls of men, he proved his country's 
friend, in the high office with which his fellow citizens entrusted him. 
His voice was not often heard in the halls of our national leg-islature, 
but if the testimony of those who know is to be believed, his counsels 
had great weight. No one has ever dared to accuse him of a want of 
patriotism. We honor him as one who loved and served his native 
land. But as we stand on the shore, with the good-byes echoing in our 
ears, political honor says, " Comfort is not in me." 

We pay our tribute to one who was successful in business. By his 
industry, honesty and sagacity he won a high place among the successful 
men of our city. Our community is indebted to him, and to such as he, 
for much of its prosperity. He has left an example which the young 
men of the present will do well to imitate. He, who by his own efforts 
conquers difficulties and achieves success, deserves the honor and 
respect of his fellows. But in such an hour as this, business success 
does not bring the comfort which such bereavement longs for. 

We bring a tribute to the memory of one who was a true friend. We 
might speak of the esteem in which he was held in business and social 
circles, but there is a smaller circle with whose tender recollections no 
stranger may intermeddle. Without controversy, there is a comfort in 
recalling the loving words we will hear no more and the kindly deeds 
we will never see again. Let the friend remember his departed friend ; 
let the son keep in mind the counsel and example of his noble father ; 
let the daughter cherish the memory of him by whose side she 
walked, and in whose love she shared. But the memt)ry of past 

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friendship and love does not make us forget our sorrow ; it only 
causes our tears to flow afresh. 

Faith in Christ is the only source of true comfort. If the one for 
whom we mourn has accepted Jesus as his Saviour, it is an easy matter 
to forecast his future. We can, from the light-house of revelation, 
folloM' his bark across the tossing waves and see it enter the haven of 
heaven. We can hear his welcome as he steps on the golden shore, and 
catch some echoes of the song of complete redemption in which he 
joins. We can hope that the parting will not be forever, and that in 
God's time we will stand on the same shore and lift up our voices in the 
same song. If there is good evidence of faith in the finished life, 
whatever sorrow we may feel will not be hopeless. 

Was there such evidence in the life of the father and friend, whom 
we come to bury to-day? The testimony of business associates, the 
records of the church in which he was a member and an office-bearer, 
the witness of his home life, and the report of the way in which he 
bore his last sickness and met the king of terrors, make answer. His 
life was a life of faith in the Son of God. Therefore, we have a right 
to hope that he sleeps in Jesus, and this hope falls upon the soul like a 
benediction. This is the comfort we commend to the mourning in this 
sad hour. It is not his honesty as a legislator, or his success in busi- 
ness, or his life as a father and a friend, but his humble faith in Jesus, 
which inspires the hope that he is "forever with the Lord." Lord, 
increase the faith of those who weep, till they can hear 7'hee saying to 
them, ''Let not your hearts be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also 
in Me." " Wherefore comfort one another with these words." 

Immediately after Dr. Reid had concluded. Rev. Dr. Kellogg fol- 
lowed. 

ADDRESS OF REV, PROF. S. H. KELLOGG, D, D. 

I cannot venture to hoj)e that any words of mine can add anything 
to the elocjuence of this impressive occasion. The very presence of 
this vast gathering attests, as no words alone could do, the estimate in 
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loss which burdens to-day so many hearts. As I look over this assem- 
bly, I see that there is scarcely a church of any name in these cities, 
scarcely a walk of life, from which representatives have not come here 
to join in the last offices of sorrow and respect to one whom all 
so honored, trusted and loved. The death of General Moorhead is a 
great loss to this church, where he has so long been a member and an 
office-bearer. He will be greatly missed from his place in this house ; 
the elders will sorely miss his wise and prayerful wisdom in their 
councils; the prayer-meeting will miss him to whose always impressive 
words of exhortation we have so long felt it a privilege to listen. But 
this family and this church mourns not to-day alone. This great 
assembly testifies eloquently, by its silent presence here, that this death 
is felt to be a loss not by this church alone, but in all the churches of 
Christ in these cities ; and a loss not to the church of Christ alone, 
but to the city and communit}' for which in his long life, in so many 
ways, he did so much, as one of her noblest and truest sons. There is, 
in a word, no part of our community which does not this day feel that 
it has been bereaved in this bereavement. 

But it is fitting that, gathered as we are to mourn the close of such a 
life, we seek to mark and learn the lessons which that life has left for 
us. There are many which might be fitly pointed out ; I will refer to 
but a single one, which the life and character of the honored dead 
should impress upon our hearts with peculiar power. That lesson is 
this, namely, that the most devoted and unswerving loyalty to the 
Lord Jesus Christ — the life, in a word, of an earnest and consistent 
Christian is perfectly compatible with the most active and successful 
engagement in the affairs of business and civil life. There are many, 
I fear, who are skeptical on this point; they imagine that any high 
development of a character distinctly Christian, must necessarily prevent 
a man from heartily engaging in those affairs, public and civil, which 
have so much to do with the welfare of our communities. The life 
which General Moorhead lived has been an effectual refutation of such a 
notion as this. Not only, as all here know, did earnest and uncompro- 
mising piety not occasion withdrawal or diminution of his active 
interest in all that pertained to the social and material welfare of this city 
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that interest, and showed us all that true personal faith in Christ and a 
life for Him, makes a man all the better citizen, all the more useful 
man to the community in which he lives. This was the one feature in 
the character of him who is gone, develo^ied with peculiar distinctness, 
which I would to-dav most earnestly commend for the imitation of all 
here present. Seek in this, to live as he lived. This is indeed the 
grand characteristic of the life of the true Christian, as distinguished 
from that of the mere man of business, or even the merely secular 
])hilanthropist. In the case of the Christian, as contrasted with these, it 
is not merely the public spirit, nor even a mere love to humanity as 
such, which is the supreme motive. Above and beyond these, while 
yet consistent with and even including them, the Christian's highest 
motive in all his worldly, as in all his religious activities, is supreme 
love and devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the one and only 
Saviour of men, who loved us and gave himself for us. This, as many 
here can testify from personal acquaintance, was the innermost and 
potent motive which inspired our departed brother in all those public, 
secular activities in which he has been so trusted and so honored by all 
classes in this city. It was the secret of his life ; and I cannot for us all 
wish anything better than that we each may have grace and holy reso- 
lution, to imitate in this respect the life which is for earth now 
ended. 

I would add more; but I must not forget that another is yet to 
address you. In closing, let me tender to those most immediately 
bereaved, in the name of all here present, our most profound and 
respectful sympathies. We feel that you have met with no common 
loss ; but we feel, also, that in the memory of the life of that father 
who has now been called home, you have a legacy of honor and bless- 
ing such as may well be matter of thanksgiving to God, even in the 
midst of a grief and desolation so great. May the Lord give to each 
of you, as to us all, grace so to follow him who is gone, that in the day 
of Christ's appearing we may all with him stand on Christ's right 
hand in His glory. 

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ADDRESS OF REV. E. P. COWAN, D. D. 

My relation, as pastor of the church to which the deceased belonged, 
and of which he was so long a prominent and useful inend)cr, makes it 
appropriate that I should add a few words to what has already been 
said, and yet I feel that I labor under a double restraint. 

My first restraint comes from a sense of personal loss, which I feel 
in the death of a cherished friend. Friends, good and true, are not so 
numerous in this cold, selfish world of ours that Me can stand 
unmoved and see one taken from us, without being almost overwhelmed 
with the greatness of the misfortune. I can truthfully say, that I have 
lost one of my best friends, and it is with unfeigned emotion, and with 
great difficulty of utterance, I attempt here to-day what will be not one 
tithe of what my heart would prompt me to say. 

INIy second restraint is the fact that the deceased desired and made 
the request that I should pronounce no eulogy over him after he was 
gone. Concerning this, I have only to say that he has already pro- 
nounced his own eulogy. His life, his career, his public record is 
familiar to all of you, and of him it may most emphatically be said, 
"He being dead, yet speakcth." 

He was not only my friend, but I may say most truthfully he might 
well be called the ministers' friend. Few, if any, ever went to him 
with the burden of some benevolent enterprise weighing on the heart, 
and did not find him a patient listener and, what is better, a willing 
helper. 

Physically he was broad chested ; intellectually he was broad minded; 
and religiously he had that broad Christian charity that brought the 
whole Christian church within the range of his generous benefactions. 
He was a Christian first and a Presbyterian afterwards. But when I 
have said this, I must say more: He was loyal to the church of his 
choice. He could not be otherwise. It was in his nature to be loyal 
to whatever cause he espoused. To us, as a church, therefore, his loss 
is in a sense irreparable. It is as though a part of our wall had fallen; 

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or rather as though one of its main pillars had been torn out. I do 
not mean to say that there are not other good men left behind in the 
church of Christ to carry on the work of the Master. There always 
have been, and I suppose there always will be such noble men, so long 
as God has a church on earth to support and defend. But each man 
stands in his own place and has his own work to do. General Moorhead 
filled his own place, and filled it well ; and now that it is made vacant 
by his death, there is no one else that can fill it. He united with 
the church in 1S49, and his interest in the Master's cause, and his 
influence in the church at large, grew deeper and stronger as he advanced 
in life. Daring the years he served his church as Ruling Elder (an 
office he held at the time of his death), he was chosen with more than 
usual frequency to represent his own church in the meetings of the 
Presbytery, and by his Presbytery to represent it in the annual meetings 
of the General Assembly. Only last spring he was to have gone to the 
Assembly at Saratoga, and indeed had gone on his way as far as Phil- 
adelphia, when ordered home by his physician, as a man too sick to be 
anywhere but with his own family. 

Sometime last fidl he was notified that he had been elected as one of 
the twenty Ruling Elders required to represent the Presbyterian Church 
of the United States of America, in the Third Pan Presbyterian Council, 
which is to be held in Belfast, Ireland, in the coming June. Only 
recently his credentials came to him through the mail, but they had to 
be returned by a member of the family, ^vith the statement of his 
inability to fulfill the mission. And now a few weeks later he has gone 
to join the general assembly and church of the first born, whose names 
are written in heaven. 

Concerning his sickness and death, as his pastor, perhaps there are some 
things that I might say here that could not be said by another. It took 
him some time to realize that his work was indeed done, and that God 
was about to call him to his hoiuc and his rest. Always in robust 
health, when sickness came, he struggled hard to recover. He fought 
bravely for his life, as any brave nuin would do; but when at last he 
iiiidtTstood w hat God would do, he evinced no repining, he revealed no 
trace of rel)eliion in his strong character. His strong will was in com- 
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strength left him; but not his faith; not liis trust in God. Conscious 
up to the moment of his death, he cahnly and without a fear awaited 
the great change whicli he liad seen coming for weeks and months. On 
that kst morning of his earthly life God fulfilled to him His promise, 
and 'gave His beloved sleep.' Gently indeed did he fall asleep in 
Jesus, and so quiet was his departure from this world of ours that 
those who watched him could scarce tell at what particular moment 
the redeemed and released spirit took its final flight. His breathing 
simply grew fainter and fainter, then one gentle sigh and all was still. 
It was the stillness of death. His soul had passed through the iron 
gate, and was in the presence of Him who " hath abolished death, and 
brought life and immortality to light in the gospel." 

During his sickness the deceased had selected a hymn to be sung at 
his funeral, as expressive of his own feelings and belief in the face of 
death. It was the r20(Jth hymn, beginning, "I would not live alway." 
So particular was he that the words which were to be used should 
correspond with what he himself might say, that he marked with his 
pencil which lines should be sung and which should be omitted. The 
second stanza speaks of "the raptures of pardon, mingled with fear." 
This it seems did not exactly express his state of mind, so he desired 
the whole stanza to be omitted. He had indeed the "raptures of 
pardon," but he did not feel like saying they were "mingled with 
fear;'^ for he could say, "yea, though I go through the valley of the 
shadow of death, I shall fear no evil." 

Here then is what we may even now regard as an accurate expression 
of the mind of him whose voice we do not hear, but who through this 
hymn yet speaks to us in language both beautiful and sublime. 



•1 wdukl iKit live alway; I ask not tn stay 
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way ; 
Tlie few lurid mornings that dawn on us here 
Are enou.i;h for life's woes, full enough for its elieer, 

'I would not live alway; no, welcome tlu- tomh; 
Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom ; 
There sweet be my rest, till He bid me arise 
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'Who, wlio wciiild live ahvay, away from liis God, 
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode. 
Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright 2>lains 
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns ? 

'Where the saints in all ages in harmony meet. 
Their Saviour and brethren transported to greet ; 
While the anthems of jjleasure unceasingly roll, 
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul." 



The final hymn was then sung by the choir in accordance with the 
request, to which reference had been made by the pastor; the benedic- 
tion was pronounced, and the vast congregation filed slowly, solemnly, 
silently up the right aisle and down the left, passing in front of the 
pulpit, each one pausing a moment to take a last look at the face they 
had seen so often before, but which they would in this world never see 
ao;ain. 

The interment was private. The family and a few friends followed 
the mortal body and saw it deposited in the family vault in the Alle- 
o-heny Cemetery, side by side with the precious remains of his beloved 
wife, the companion of his life, with whom he walked for more than 
half a century, and who had proceeded him to the ''better laud" by 
only a few years. 



"And I heard a voice from heaven saying. Blessed are the dead which 
die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
rest from their labors; and their works do follow them," 

" But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them 
which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. 
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also 
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." " Wherefore comfort 
one another with these words." 



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Extracts from Papers, &c, 



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RESOLUTIONS OF THE SESSION OF THE THIRD 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 

At the regular meeting of Session, held on Saturday, March 8th, in 
the Pastor's study at the church, after Preparatory Services, the follow- 
iug entry was made in our Sessional Record Book : 

" Since we last met as a Session, General James K. Moorhead, one of 
our number, has peacefully entered into that ' rest that remaineth for 
the people of God.' Although his departure was not unexpected, as he 
had been ill for some months past, our sorrow is none the less deep and 
sincere as we reflect that we shall see his face no more on earth, nor 
have the benefit of his wise counsel in managing the spiritual affairs of 
our beloved church. 

'' We desire, therefore, at this time to enter on our records, as a fit- 
ting tribute to his memory, an expression of our high admiration of his 
character and our gratitude to God for the example of fidelity he has 
left behind, which must ever be to all of us a l)lessed memory and a 
constant help. 

" Although for many years a prominent figure in public life, he has 
also been none the less prominent in the religious world. He did not, 
however, live two lives, but one. In all his public life he maintained 
his religious character, and in the religious world he used wisely and 
well the power and influence that his public j)osition gave him. To-day, 
as his mortal remains lie in his late earthly home awaiting entombment, 
the whole city is ready to acknowledge it has lost one of its very fore- 
most citizens, and the church mourns that a prince in Israel has fallen. 
To the Third Presbyterian Church, where he has so long served faith- 
fully as a ruling elder, our loss is irreparable. Only our confidence in 
the Great Head of the Church, who never errs, and who loves His 
Church more than we do, enables us to believe that it is all for the 

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best, and to say submissively, ' Thy will be done,' We know for our 
brother ' to depart and be with Christ is far better,' and for him to die 
is eternal gain. 

"God's redeeming- love was his sustaining power during the weary 
months of waiting. As he entered the valley of the shadow of death he 
feared no evil ; God's 'rod and His stali^ — they comforted him.' Peace- 
fully, without one lingering regret after a long and useful life, he 
passed into the spirit world and to his eternal reward. His Saviour 
took him gently into His everlasting arms, and as the end drew near, 
without a struggle or groan he closed his eyes and fell asleep in Jesus. 
' Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man 
is peace. May we die the death of the righteous and may our last end 
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ACTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 

A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held on the 
afternoon of March 7th, to take action in reference to the death of 
General James K. Moorhead. There was a large representation of the 
members present, and the meeting was unusually impressive. Mr. 
Reuben Miller presided, and in calling the Chamber to order stated 
that this was the second time within a few years the Chamber was 
called upon to mourn the loss of its President. He thought it but due 
the time-honored member that proper resolutions of respect be passed 
and sent to the family. The following gentlemen were then appointed 
a Committee on Resolutions: Messrs. J. R. McCune, J. B. Scott, -J. G. 
Siebeneek, R. C. Schniertz and H. K. Porter. The committee retired 
to an adjoining room, and while they Mere waiting, Mr. Dravo moved 
the following committee be appointed to arrange for attending the 
funeral in a body: R. C. Gray, Charles Meyran and Reuben Miller. 
The Committee on Resolutions made their report as follows: 

The Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, having been called 
together on hearing of the death of its President, Hon. James Kennedy 
Moorhead, resolves : 

"That in his demise the commnnity loses a most exemplary citizen, an earnest pro- 
moter of public charities and religions influences, as well as one who, in his long career 
of business activity, occupied a leading position in all the enterprises looking toward the 
Ijromotion of commercial intercourse, the development of our mineral resources, and all 
the essential elements of a higher civilization. 

"The great arteries of transportation and travel devised by tlie Commonwealtli in its 
system of canals occupied Greneral Moorhead in his early manhood, and throughout life 
the subject of water transportation claimed him as an earnest and succes.sful advocate, as 
witnessed in the Monongahela Navigation, tiie improvement in the Ohio river, and the 
creation of a national harl)or at Pittslmrgh liv means of tlu- works at l)avis Island. 



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" Over fifty years ago General Moorliead became also interested in the first railroads 
projected in this State. He was an early advocate of the construction of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad, and of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, and just thirty-one years 
previous to the day of his death, active ojJerations were commenced, under his personal 
supervision, on the Cluirtiers A'alley Railroad, of which he was the projector and first 
President, and which was designed to maintain the su})remacy of Pittsburgh in the 
railway struggle then actively raging. 

" The delicate and mysterious energy of electro-magnetism as displayed in the novel 
system of instantaneous eonuinmication of intelligence claimed General Moorhead's 
l)ractical genius, and the very corner-stone of the largest telegraph service in the world, 
that of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was shaped and put in place by the 
active mind of our departed President. 

"In the metallurgical progress of Western Pennsylvania the creative and pioneer 
effort of (xeneral Moorhead was also displayed. Rising much above the ordinary busi- 
ness views of tlie question, we need only allude to the endeavor to utilize the forges and 
foundi-iesof Pittsburgli in fusliioning tlic niodei-n machinery of war for the maintenance 
of tlu' I'nion; and his conspicuous services in the councils of the Nation during that 
anxidus period have been emphasized by the public press. Nor needs it any apology in 
tliis place, and at this time, to recall his historic service in the memorable reunion of 
tlie two large religious organizations which took place in our city. 

"(ieneral Moorhead, in the ripest experience of his life, had become thoroughly con- 
vinced of the utility, necessity and importance of such an organization as that which is 
niiw lierc assembled to pay tribute to liis memory as a man, and as a citizen. His 
associates in the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce bear willing witness 
of the fact that tlie l)usiness of tliis institution engaged a liberal and loving share of his 
attention in tiie jjast seven years ; that, though entitled to honorable repose, he was 
most prompt in attendance at its meetings, and ever ready to undertake serious and 
fatiguing labor in the interests of the Chamber, and this section of our State. 

" In tlie broadest and most emphatic sense, his genial disjiosition, alert mental lialiits, 
Ills humane and synqjathetic activity in all works of charity, education, civic and jioliti- 
cal function, have been invaluable (|ualities to his city, liis native State and the Nation. 
( )f all these, this ininutc, to l)e I'litt'red uiiuii our records, is but a feeble, tliough affec- 
tionate, memorial; and it is fiirtlicr 

^^ Resolved, That the same be also transmitted to tlie bereaved family, and tliat the 
Chamber attend the funeral services as a bodv." 



Mr. DiJAVo's Remarks. 

Oil tlie motion to adoj^t, John F. Dravo .spoke as follows: 

" Gentj.km en of th e Cii a mbeu. — As the .senior Vice President of this 
body, t think it but iitting- that 1 shoidd drop a word on the death of 
snch a distino'uislied man. (Jeneral ]\Io(^rliead was a true friend, a friend 

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such as every man needs at almost every turn of life, a friend that recog- 
nized nothing too arduous or laborious in the way of assistance. He 
was always ]-eady to assist the young, and many a young man in this city 
owes his start in life to the aid and encouragement received from 
General Moorhead. He was a true citizen, a citizen that enjoyed the 
high prerogative of having few equals. True to his manhood and the 
principles he maintained, he enjoyed a wide reputation. As a National 
representative, he was faithful beyond challenge. During a long time 
of service in the halls of Congress his conduct was beyond impeach- 
ment. Always faithful and true to the great industries he represented, 
his power and ability were shown on more than one occasion Avhile 
supporting them. Many of the leading business industries of this city 
stand as grand monuments to his name and fame. He never deviated 
from the high line of an irreproachable life. 

He was also true as a philanthropist. He gave with a liberal hand 
to all charitable objects that commanded his respect. Many of the 
churches and charitable institutions of the city can acknowledge the 
generous hand now cold in death ; and now it but remains for the 
Chamber of Commerce to pay a fitting tribute to his useful life. As a 
member of this body he was untiring in his eiforts for its interests and 
ever zealous for its welfare. Next to his church the Chamber was the 
pride of his life. But his work is done. He has been a useful member 
to society and to his country, and has gone to his reward." 

Remarks of John H. Ricketsox. 

John H. Ricketson followed Captain Dravo. He spoke as follows : 

" Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen — Though the sad event which 
has called us together was not unexpected, though we have for some 
time realized that the long, lingering and painful illness of General 
Moorhead would in all ]>robability terminate f\\tally, when we heard 
that he was dead we found ourselves still un})iepared for the shock, 
and to-day there is no man who knew him, inside or outside of this 
Chamber, who does not feel a keen sense of personal bereavement. AVe 
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startling swiftness, and though the weeks have rolled into months since 
our late President met with us, it seems but yesterday that we saw him 
in his accustomed seat, at the head of our table, in all the richness and 
grandeur of his autumn, with faculties unimpaired, and his mind full 
of the ripe and garnered wisdom of a hale and hearty old age. Another 
will occupy his chair, and discharge its duties with satisfaction, no 
doubt, to the Chamber and the community, but no man will ever preside 
over our deliberations with greater dignity, kindness and impartiality 
than he whose loss Ave mourn to-day. In tact, good nature, and the 
ability to preside at any gathering of his fellow-citizens, General 
Moorhead had few peers and no superiors. With what promptness he 
pushed through the business of our sessions; how quickly and pleasantly 
he recalled us to ourselves and brought us back to the subject under 
consideration when we wandered from the point; how he checked our 
levity and enforced silence whenever necessary, and how, through all 
the years we sat together, he retained our respect and affection. How 
hearty were his words of commendation of a report of a speech he 
thought deserving of it, and how generous his words of encouragement 
to younger men. Until his last illness he was never absent from our 
meetings, unless paramount duties called him elsewhere, and he never 
neglected or unnecessarily postponed matters of business, whether great 
or small. 

This is not the hour for a full and formal dissertation upon the 
character of the strong man, the earnest and zealous member of the 
church of his adoption, the public-spirited citizen, the good neighbor, 
the faithful friend, the devoted parent, who has just been gathered to 
his fathers, full of years and honors. Time must mitigate the severity 
of the blow that has fallen upon us ; we must be ftirther removed from 
his personal presence, and our grief must be to some extent assuaged, 
before we can calmly analyze those qualities of head and lieart which 
made General Moorhead the prominent figure in our community he was 
lor so many years. We can, however, venture to say that though he 
Avas emphatically a man of action and affairs he was possessed of a 
mind of such large general powers that in Avhatever environment he 
was placed he took a foremost rank. He belonged to that strong and 
sturdy stock of self-made, self-educated men, which has so largely con- 

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tributed to develop the resources of his native State, and given to 
Pennsylvania her conspicuous and influential place in the National 
Union. During the ten years he so ably represented us in Congress, 
though he made no pretensions to oratory, he was in debate, especially 
on practical matters^ a formidable antagonist. I remember hearing a 
New York capitalist say during his term at Washington that he would 
rather have General Moorhead's influence in favor of a measure before 
Congress than that of any other member on the floor of the House. 
An instance occurs to me of his irresistible force when he was thoroughly 
aroused. Some of you will remember that a committee, of which he 
Avas chairman, was sent from this Chamber to Washington to secure 
an approjjriation of !|1 00,000 for the Davis Island Dam. We asked 
for it months in advance of the river and harbor bill. We were told 
that we were on a fool's errand, that we were seeking for an impossibility. 
I had the honor to be one of the committee, and having other business 
in Washington, went there a day or two before the rest. After talking 
with several members of the House, I was much discouraged, and so 
told General Moorhead on his arrival. Said he: 'We will see what 
can be done. This appropriation is right, it ought to be passed, 
and it shall be passed, unless congressional human nature has changed 
since my day.' We went before the House Committee on Commerce. 
Several Pennsylvauians spoke in favor of the measure, among others 
three or four members of this Chamber. Finally, General Moorhead 
arose, and I can see him now as he stood there, still in the vigor of his 
powers, and in all the magnificence of his presence. Said he: 'Gentle- 
men, I am now only an old horse turned out to grass, but for ten years 
I represented my district on the floor of yonder hall, and I sat perhaps 
in the seat now occupied by one of you. In my time an emergency 
arose every now and then like the one that brings me before you to-day, 
and to meet it, we had to go out of the usual order of things. We 
want $100,000 for the Davis Island Dam, and we want it at once. If 
we don't get it, not only Pittsburgh interests, but those of the Govern- 
ment will suffer. Now, I want you to do for me just as I would do for 
you were our situations reversed. I want you to make a unanimous 
recommendation in favor of this appropriation, and we will pass it by 
a joint resolution of the Senate and the House. Where there is a will 

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there is a way. I have shown you the way, and I think I see in your 
eyes the will to do this thing — and I am so sure that you will make a 
recommendation in our favor that I now thank you beforehand for 
having done so.' The eifeet was electrical. The committee at 
their very next meeting made the recommendation unanimously, 
the appropriation was passed, and the funds for the dam made 
available forthwith. I cannot forbear relating one more instance, 
illustrating General Moorhead's attention to the details of his public 
and private life, and his prompt response when his feelings 
were touched. Yesterday, after hearing the sad news of his decease, 
I asked the foreman of one of the departments of our works if 
he knew that General Moorhead was dead. Said he: 'Is General 
Moorhead dead ? I shall never forget his great kindness to me during 
the war. I was a private in the Sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
After two years of service I was taken prisoner and thrown into the 
corral at Belle Island, opposite Richmond ' (and his color heightened 
and his eye flashed as he recalled his experience there), ' where I lay 
for six months. At the end of that time I was removed to Camp 
Parole, at Annapolis. I had not seen my family for two years, and I 
asked the proper officer for a short leave of absence. For some reason 
this was not granted, and having heard of General Moorhead's kind 
feeling for the Pennsylvania volunteers, in my despair I wrote, telling 
him my story, and asked if he could get me leave to go home. In less 
than ten days I was sent for to come to headquarters, and a letter was 
read me to the effect that, at the request of General Moorhead, of the 
Twentv-second Cono;ressional district of Pennsvlvania, I was granted a 
furlough of twenty days. Since then I have never heard his name 
spoken or seen it in print, that I have not said in my heart, God bless 
General Moorhead.' Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen, such instances as 
this constitute a far more touching and eloquent tril)ute to our late 
President than any words the most gifted speaker could utter here. I 
second the motion for the adoption of the resolutions which have been 
read, and I beg leave to add that, well drawn as they are, they but 
feebly express the sentiments of esteem, affection and respect in which 
the memory of James Kennedy Moorhead will ever be held, not only 
by this Chamber, but our entire community." 

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George H. Anderson was the next speaker. He referred to the loss 
sustained by the community in General Moorhead's death. " Truly a 
great man has fallen," he said, " whose place cannot be filled. General 
Moorhead was above the ordinary man. He has filled a well rounded 
life and goes down to an honored grave. His life has been well spent, 
and he met the shadow of death, surrounded by his family and friends, 
without fear." 

At the close of Mr. Anderson's address the resolutions were adopted 
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THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 

JAMES KENNEDY MOOEHEAD. 

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Western Theological 
Seminary, held May 2d, 1884, the following tribute to the memory of 
James K. Moorhead was ordered to be entered upon the minutes: 

"The Board of Trustees of the Western Theological Seminary, has 
heard with profound sorrow of the death of our friend and colleague, 
Hon. .lames Kennedy Moorhead, who departed this life on the Gtli day 
of March, A. D. 1884, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 

In making this minute of the death of General Moorhead, the Board 
desire to formally express their high admiration of those traits which 
raised our departed friend to eminence among his fellow citizens, and 
endeared him to the entire Christian community. Gifted with a 
magnificent physique, replete with energy^ clear-headed, far-seeing and 
resolute, he succeeded by the union of these qualities, with justice, 
generosity, fidelity and truth, in achieving for himself a position of com- 
manding infiuence, such as it is allotted to but few men to hold. By 
industry and sagacity he acquired a princely fortune ; by devoted fidel- 
ity to all trusts committed to his care, he won the wide-spread and 
enduring confidence of his fellow-citizens, who repeatedly testified in 
the most unqualified manner to the respect and esteem they held for 
him, by calling him to positions of the highest political and financial 
res2)onsibility; he having served for many years with distinction in the 
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management of nearly all the leading public charities of Western 
Pennsylvania, as well as with many of the most important business 
enterprises which have given to the city of Pittsburgh its prominence 
in the world of manufactures and trade. 

It is not, however, to his worth as a sagacious and patriotic political 
leader, nor to his merit as a diligent and upright financial adviser, that 
the Trustees of the Western Theological Seminary desire especially to 
bear testimony, so much as to the sterling traits of Christian character 
which endeared him to the friends of the Lord Jesus Christ. This 
busy man, full of the cares of public office, and engrossed in the prose- 
cution of large enterprises, any one of which might have been 
supposed to have demanded the expenditure of all his energies, yet 
found time to faithfully perform the duties of the Christian life. Gen. 
Moorhead was characterized by sincere Christian faith, and by that 
broad charity and warm-hearted generosity which are among the most 
beautiful products of faith. The poor, the unfortunate and the per- 
plexed found in him at all times a helper and a kind counselor. He 
was a member of the session of the Third Presbyterian Church of this 
city, and one of the truest supports of the cause of Christ in that 
great and influential congregation. He was rarely absent, when at 
home, from the prayer-meeting and from his pew on the Lord's day, 
and during the last ten years of his life was almost uninterruptedly the 
Commissioner of the Third Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of 
Pittsburgh, which frequently honored him by making him a Commis- 
sioner to the General Assembly, wdiere his appointment on important 
committees testified to the respect and esteem in which he was held by 
the Church at large. 

Amid all his honors and dignities he was, however, best known to us 
as the faithful friend and wise promoter of the cause of Christian edu- 
cation, and especially of that work which has been entrusted to the 
Western Theological Seminary to do, toward raising up a wise and 
zealous ministry for the Church. 

In the welfare of this school of the prophets he always manifested 
a profound interest, and by his gifts of money and words of large 
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We sliall loug inourn the vacancy made in our ranks by his removal 
from our midst, but our sorrow is tempered by the reflection that what 
is our loss has been his unspeakable heavenly gain. 'Well done, 
good and faithful servant.' 

To the bereaved family of our departed brother, we tender the heart- 
felt assurance of our sympathy in their affliction." 

Jno. a. Renshaw, 

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WEST, PENN, HOSPITAL. 

MINUTE ON DEATH OF GEN. J. K. MOORHEAD. 

''Since the last regular meeting of the Executive Committee of ^Yest- 
ern Penn'a. Hospital, our first and only Chairman, Gen. J. K. Moor- 
head, has departed this life. 

It is with feelings of deep sorrow that we who have been associated 
with him in the management of the city hospital since its organization, 
endeavor to record our appreciation of his unremitting labor in its 
interests, and our sincere regret at his death. 

Now, when his stately form has departed, his kind tones have been 
forever hushed, we, with thousands of his fellow-citizens, experience 
a sense of personal bereavement, and sit together under a shadow that 
covers the entire Commonwealth. 

The death of such a man as General jSIoorhead — so wise and mature 
in judgment — so prompt and energetic in action — so faithful in meeting 
all responsibilities and performing all trusts, leaves a vacancy prompting 
the earnest question, 'AVho wuU take his place?' 

Called as he was to many high positions in church and State, demand- 
ing the exercise of unusual and diverse faculties, his ability and power 
were such that he was at once recognized as a leader. Whether it were 
national and State aifairs, business enterprises, public improvements, 
church councils or charitable associations which claimed his attention, 
he labored with such enthusiasm and zeal in every direction that 
those associated with him naturally supposed the object enlisting theii- 
own sympathy was the one nearest his heart. 

While so faithful and true to all duty, his kind and sympathetic 
nature impelled him to devote an unusual part of his time, means and 
personal attention to the sick and injured sufferers of the hospital. 

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From the reorganization and opening of the general city liospital 
in 1872, until the last days of his life on earth, he was deeply inter- 
ested in all that would contribute to the welfare of the patients. 

While the sights and sounds of misery in the wards were painful to 
his keen sensibilities, he was a frequent visitor, whose words of cheer 
were a solace to the sick and dying. In earlier years, when the neces- 
sity of a large general city hospital was not so apparent to many, and 
when serious difficulties environed the new benevolent project, our 
chairman's good judgment, steady persistence, and strong personal influ- 
ence, opened to it the sources of material aid and tided it safely 
through the perilous straits. At times when the necessity required, 
he left the weighty duties devolving upon him, and by his earnest 
appeals did much to establish the hospital on its secure foundation. 
His love for suffering humanity did not cease with his earthly life, for 
he bequeathed an amount of his wealth, amply sufficient to endow 
several free beds in perpetuity. 

He was one of the original corporators of the Western Penn'a. Hos- 
pital in 1848, — the number of which has been so sadly reduced in 
recent years. 

With this entire community, for whose best interests he labored so 
assiduously, we tender our heartfelt condolence to his bereaved family." 

Jos. Albree, 

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WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 

* Allegheny, June 2, 1884. 

To THE Family of the late Hon. J. K. Moorhead : 

The Committee of the Trustees of the Western University of Penn- 
sylvania, appointed April 28th, 1884, to prepare a minute for the 
Records, presented, at the annual meeting of the Board hekl this day, 
the following memorial, which was adopted unanimously: 

"The Board wishes to place on record an expression of the high 
regard they entertain for Hon. J. K. Moorhead, deceased, who served 
the University in the capacity of a Trustee for almost thirty years. 

He endeared himself to us by the noble traits of character he devel- 
oped in the various public positions he occupied during a long and well- 
spent life. 

As a leader of one of the great political parties, he demonstrated 
that he could be intensely partisan when penetrated with the conviction 
that an important principle of government was involved in the issue; 
also, that he could be as thoroughly non-partisan when the contest nar- 
rowed itself down to a factional fight for the spoils of office. 

As a Christian, he closely identified himself with one of our leading 
churches, and by his activity proved that he not only wished to rejoice 
in the consolations afforded by the Gospel, but that he was also willing 
to bear the burdens and share the toils incumbent to a scriptural 
religious life. As a citizen, he was not unmindful of the duty he owed 
to his fellow-man. But as Providence smiled propitiously upon and 
prospered and strengthened him, he freely gave his counsel and means 
to the various institutions that are struggling to ameliorate the condi- 
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As a business man, he developed an unusual degree of sagacity, and 
withal he carried through all his transactions an unflinching integrity, 
that gave stability to the enterprises with which he was identified, and 
won for him the confidence and esteem of his associates. 

As a husband, father, citizen, business man, statesman. Christian, and 
Trustee of this University, he has left an example worthy of imitation, 
and is entitled to an enduring tablet in our memories. 

We hereby instruct the Secretary to incorporate this expression in 
our minutes, and to prepare a suitable copy and send it to the family 
of our deceased co-laborer." 

William Thaw, 
F. R. Brunot, 
Thos. N. Boyle, 

Covimittee. 
True copy, Records of Trustees, 
of June 2d, 1884. Vol. III. 

Jos. F. Griggs, 

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MONONGAHELA NAVIGATION COMPANY, 

Pittsburgh, March 8, 1884. 

At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Monongahela Naviga- 
tion Company, held this afternoon, the following minute was adopted 
in relation to the decease of Hon. J. K. Moorhead, the President of 
the Company, on motion of Hon. F. R. Brunot: 

" Within a few hours after the last meeting of this Board, our beloved 
and venerated President, James Kennedy Moorhead, was called from 
the scene of his earthly labors; an eminently useful, honorable and 
successful life was terminated most fitly in a peaceful and happy death. 
To this company, of which he had been the head for an uninterrupted 
period of over thirty-seven years, and with which he had been actively 
connected since the year 1839, the loss thus sustained is irreparable, 
while to the community at large, and especially to the citizens of Pitts- 
burgh, the death of one so universally respected, and who has done so 
much by his personal exertions and influence to promote the material 
prosperity and best interests of the country as well as of his own State 
and city, will be felt as a public calamity; therefore, 

"Resolved, That tliis Board express their sincere sorrow at the decease of General.!. K. 
Moorhead, and their deep sympathy with his bereaved family and relatives. 

" Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare a suitable mintite to 1)0 |)la('ed 
upon our records, in testimony of our deep sympathy with the family and friends of our 
deceased President ; of our appreciation of the invaluable services rendered by him to 
this company during a long series of yeai's; of the high regard for his memory, and of 
our sincere sorrow for the personal loss which we have individually sustained by the 
death of an honorable man, a worthy citizen, an efficient officer, and a true friend. 

" Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to furnish a copy of this minute to tlie 
family of our deceased President." 

A. Bradley, 
W. Bakewell, President. 

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BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE ALLEGHENY CEMETERY, 

At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Allegheny Cemetery, 
held on Friday, p. m. March 7, the following minute was offered by Mr. 
Wm. Thaw, and adojited: 

"The Managers of the Allegheny Cemetery have heard with sincere 
sorrow of the death yesterday of their excellent and venerated Presi- 
dent, the Hon. James Kennedy Moorhead, after a prolonged illness, 
during which he was called consciously to face the approach of death 
during many weeks of suffering and weakness, borne with humble 
patience and hopeful assurance of a blessed resurrection. 

This Board makes now no formal expression of its sense of loss. 
General Moorhead had come personally and officially not only to com- 
mand the respect and confidence of his fellow managers, which his in- 
telligent and unselfish devotion to the welfare of the Cemetery gave him 
by right, but had won their affectionate esteem in their long and inti- 
mate intercourse, until now his death falls upon the members of the 
Board as a personal bereavement. 

This minute is made as the spontaneous expression of the feelings of 
the Board, at this stated meeting, called before and held the day follow- 
ing the death of its President, and Messrs. Harper, McCandless, and 
the Secretary, Dr. J. P. Speer, are appointed a committee to prepare a 
minute for the adoption of the Board and for ])resentation to the corpo- 
rators at their next annual meeting, which shall more adequately record 
the high character and valuable services of our deceased President and 
friend; and that a copy of the same be furnished to the family of 
deceased by the Secretary of the corporation." 

The following is the minute adopted by the Board of Corporators 
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''Having heard tlie minute read that M'as adopted at the meeting of 
the Board of Managers of the Cemetery, March 7th, on being informed 
of the death of General Moorhead on the day previous, March 6th, it is 
hereby unanimously 

'^Besolved, By tlie Board of Corporators at tliis their annual int-otinij, tliat it adopts 
and cordially endorses the sentiments contained in that minute, ex})ressed as they are in 
terse and appropriate terms, and entirely in accordance with their own personal feelings 
in regard to the high character of General Moorhead, and the valuable services he has 
rendered tlie Cemetery as Corporator for nearly half a century, and President of the 
Board of Managers since the death of the Hon. T. M. Howe, whicli occurred in 1877. 

"'Besolved, That the above resolution be recorded in the minutes of this day's proceed- 
ings, in testimony of the sincere sympathy entertained by the individual members of the 
Board for the family of the deceased, under the bereavement of an artectittnate and kind 
father, and a wise counselor." 

"General Moorhead was gifted by nature with superior endowments, 
mental and physical. To a robust and well-developed frame was 
added corresponding qualities of mind and intellect, giving him an 
aptitude to acquire and utilize information obtained to the best advan- 
tage, when opportunity or necessity required. 

His educational advantages were limited, but a retentive memory and 
close observance of events daily passing around him in business, and 
in the enterprises of the day, made up for this deficiency. 

He was in fact a 'self-made man,' and a noble example of a notable 
class of energetic men that now and then come forward to claim rank 
and eminence in the councils of the nation, and in the large interests of 
business, and outrank even contemporaries who have been reposing under 
the honors conferred by colleges and universities. Of this class were 
James Ross, Walter Forward, T. A. Scott, Hon. T. M. Howe and Hon. 
J. S. Black, the last of whom emerged from the rocks and mountains 
of Somerset County, and by his own persistent effort rose to the 
high office of Attorney-General of the United States, and to the 
still higher position of Secretary of State. Innate energy of mind, 
untiring industry, and a noble ambition to excel, were the elements of 
success in all such men, and under the impulse of such energies. General 
Moorhead overcame all the obstacles he had to encounter in the different 
employments and responsible duties in which he had been engaged, and 
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standing on the floor of Congress in the midst of law-makers and states- 
men of the nation, many of whom were ripe scholars, and men of 
established reputation ; but it was not long until he was regarded in his 
new position as an able and useful member. He was always obliging, 
and attentive to the business and interests of his constituents, and so 
well satisfied were they with the manner in which his duties were per- 
formed, that he was returned at five successive elections, making ten 
years to the same office, and it is not improbable that, if his advanced 
years and impaired health had not i)revented, he would have been elected 
to the still higher position of United States Senator. 

On the important subject of the tariflp, which at that time agitated 
the nation almost as fiercely as it does at the present, he delivered 
several able speeches, and by his personal influence aided in preventing 
its defeat and untimely death at that time. 

The whole course of the war of the rebellion began and ended dur- 
ing the term of General Moorhead's service in Congress, and this 
probably accounts for the fact that he was not called to active service 
in the field, where his patriotic devotion to the cause would have led him. 

In active service in the field, bone, muscle and bravery are the quali- 
fications necessary for success, and the patriotic yeomanry of the country 
had furnished a good supply of such material when called for; but in 
the halls of Congressa higher grade of endowment was necessary, men 
of mature and vigorous minds, competent to look intelligently into the 
causes of the rebellion of the Southern States, and the disastrous con- 
sequences of the suicidal conflict to both parties, and the means they 
could command to carry on a war with any hope of success, to find 
out the weak points of the enemy, and in co-operation with the Ex- 
ecutive, and on behalf of the Union, to form a reasonable estimate of the 
number of men, and the amount of money that might be neces- 
sary to j)ut down the rebellion, and who would use their influence to 
have reliable and capable officers appointed to command the army, and 
su(;h laws passed by Congress as might be necessary to furnish all sup- 
plies of arms and provisions required to maintain and keep the army 
ready at all times for either attack or defence. 

The crisis demanded prompt and energetic action. The large expe- 
rience of (icneral Moorhead and his former l)usiness associations fitted 

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him eminently to give useful aid and counsel under such circumstances, 
and in order that he might be able to do so intelligently, he made 
repeated visits to the army when important movements were pending, 
or anticipated, and returning to Washington, rejiorted to (/Ongress the 
information he had obtained. 

For nearly a quarter of a century he has been a Trustee of the 
Western University of Pennsylvania, attending faithfully all the meet- 
ings of its Board, and giving his aid and influence to promote its suc- 
cess and reputation as a literary institution of the first grade. 

In 1850 he was elected a Corporator of the Allegheny Cemetery, and 
on the death of General Howe he was elected President of the Board 
of Managers, and has since given much of his time and attention to 
the management and details of its extensive business until disabled by 
his last illness from attendance on their regular meetings. 

He was President of the Board of Trade and Commerce, and pre- 
sided over its deliberations with judgment and ability. He also acted 
for several years as a member of the Board of Inspectors of the West- 
ern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. 

His characteristic traits, energy and enterprise, led him to take part 
in many associations and enterprises calculated to promote the public 
welfare of this city. 

He was one of the prime movers in the Monongahela Slackwater 
Improvement, and President of the Board of Managers of the company 
elected to complete that work, and the chief agent and manager of its 
affairs from its commencement till the date of his death, devoting a 
large amount of personal care and labor to the interests of the 
company. 

To his honor may it be stated, that in nearly every organization in 
the city of a benevolent and charitable character, intended for the 
care and relief of the poor, his name is known and respected as a lib- 
eral donor and friend. His heart and his purse were always ready and 
open to the wants of the poor. 

Many years since he purchased a large and beautiful lot situated on 
the high bank of the ravine that runs from east to west through the 
grounds, and built upon it one of the most elaborate and costly reposi- 
tories for the dead in this Cemetery, intended for his family and his 

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posterity. It may properly be called a " mausoleum," a magnificent 
tomb, indicative of good taste and munificence. 

He has now closed a long, eventful and useful life. The disease of 
which he died was an insidious cancer of the stomach and adjoining 
organs, giving but little pain for several months, but arresting diges- 
tion and reducing his large frame, for want of nutrition, from its 
average weight of two hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty 
pounds. He contemplated for months with calm resignation his 
approaching end; and now sleeps in the repository he had prepared, by 
the side of his honored and loved wife, trusting for their reunion in a 
higher and happier life, and relying on the teachings and promises of 
the Christian religion, in which he was a firm believer, and on its 
divine Author and Founder. 

Long will the name of General Moorhead be remembered and 
revered in the community he has left, as a valued friend, a worthy 
citizen, and an able statesman." 

John Harper, 

Stephen C. McCandless, 

James R. Speer. 



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DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM. 

Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees 
of the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf 
and Dumb, held March 28th, 1884: 

"It is with feelings of deep sorrow that we record the death of the 
Hon. J. K. Moorhead, an esteemed and useful member of our associa- 
tion. This sad event took place at his residence in this city, on the 
morning of the 6th inst. 

General Moorhead was a member of this Board from the date of its 
organization, and was among the first contributors to its funds. He 
took an active interest in the management of its affairs ; affording us the 
benefit of his large experience, sound judgment and great executive 
ability. He was a man of large-hearted benevolence, deeply interested 
in every movement that had for its aim the alleviation of suffering, 
the instruction of the ignorant, the relief of the unfortunate. As such 
he was the zealous promoter of religious and charitable enterprise." 

From the minutes. 

Jno. B. Jackson, 

Secretary. 



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RESOLUTIONS OF THE OHIO RIVER COMMISSION, 

"Whereas, Since the last meeting of the Ohio River Commission, 
our honored President, J. K. jNIoorhead, has been removed from our 
midst, by death ; 

"Mesoived, That this Commission feel most deeply the irreparable loss they have 
sustained by his removal, liaving recognized in him for many years the embodiment of 
honor, giving to our councils sound and prudent judgment, and we herein' extend our 
heartfelt sympathies to his bereaved family. 

^'Mesolved, Tliat a co2>y of tliese resolutions be sent to the family of deceased." 

Attest, 

A. S. Berey, 

Secretary. 



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RESOLUTIONS OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE SOHO IRON MILLS. 

At a meeting of the employees of the Soho Iron Mills (Moorhead & 
Co.), Marcli 7, ^lanager James C. Gray in the chair, the following 
minute and resolutions of respect to the memory of the Hon. J. K. 
Moorhead were adopted: 

" Once more we are called upon to do honor to the memory of one of 
our most distinguished citizens who has found the gentle end of human 
sorrows and labors, and who has passed beyond the shoals of time into 
the peaceful seas of eternity. Remembering with just pride liis devo- 
tion to public duty, his fidelity to his fellow-men and his stability of 
character, we recognize with deepest sorrow the wide loss which his 
death has caused, and whereby we are made to mourn an esteemed and 
valued friend, the community an honored citizen, his family a devoted 
father and protector; and desiring to give expression to our heartfelt 
sentiment of respect which we entertain for our departed friend, it is 

"Resolved, That we reeogni/X' in this sorrowful bereavement the sovereign will of an 
All-wise Providence, and while it fills our hearts with sadness, we know that we can not 
better honor the sjiirit of our departed friend than by reverently saying, tliat we yield 
humble submission to the Lord's will. 

"iJesofoed, That his amiable disi:)osition endeared him to all wiio knew iiim; while the 
faithfulness he ever manifested for the success of the interests committed to his care, 
commanded our admiration and highest regard. 

"Resolved, That we ofler our most tender sympathy to that liome circle in which liis 
loving and noble disposition cast such a glow of sunshine and happiness, cheering the 
liearts of all within, and that we commend the members of the family to the kind care 
of Ilim who alone can ever give rich compensation for the broken ties of earth." 

A. F. Dunn, 
H. C. AVoLF, 

H. C. KiRKLAND, 

James Doherty, 
John Flscus, 
Committee on Resolutions. 

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WESTERN INSURANCE CO, 

Pittsburgh, March 8th, 1884. 

At a meeting of the Directors of the Western Insurance Company, 
held this morning, the following memorial was adopted: 

" By the death of General J. K. Moorhead this Board suffers the loss 
of one of its most respected and honored members, one whose ripe 
counsel and judgment was highly appreciated; and therefore, we are 
constrained to place on our records this tribute to his worth and service. 
We, who have been intimately associated with him, have found those 
traits that mark the ' perfect man and upright, and one that feared 
God, and eschewed evil.' Jn his death the community has lost one of 
its most useful and valued citizens, who, by his native force of char- 
acter, rare good judgment, and business enterprise, has contributed very 
largely to the growth and prosperity of our city. 

The interest shown by the deceased in every good and worthy object 
attested his beneficence and large-heartedness, and in all respects we can 
commend him as an exemplar worthy of imitation. 

As a mark of respect we will attend his funeral, and the Secretary is 
directed to enter this memoir on the minutes of the Board, and also 
forward a copy to the family of the deceased." 

Wm. p. Herbert, Alexander Nimick, 

Secretary. President. 



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THE PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK, 

At a meeting of the Trustees of the Peoples Savings Bank of Pitts- 
burgh, specially called on learning of the death of General James 
K. Moorhead, the following was ordered to be recorded on the minutes: 

"Again death has taken from us one of our members, and we meet 
to-day to give expression to our feelings at the loss of one with whom 
we have been associated for a period of nearly twelve years. We will 
miss General Moorhead as a calm and careful adviser in the affairs of 
our institution, and as a true and sincere friend whose many acts of 
kindness will ever be remembered by us. 

To his bereaved family we offer our heartfelt sympathy, and as a 
mark of respect, direct these proceedings to be published and a copy 
thereof transmitted to them." 



S. F. VON BONNHORST, 

Secretary. 



William Rea, 

President. 



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[Frdin the National Bepubliran, Vi'nshingtnu, D. C'.., (if Friday, Marcli Ttli, 1SS4.] 

OBITUARY. 

DEATH OF HON. JAMES K. MOORHEAD, OF PENNSYLVANIA- 
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. 

The death of Hon. James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, which occurred yesterday at his residence after a long illness, 
removes from his native State one of its most active, public-spirited, 
useful, and popular citizens. He was born in Central Pennsylvania in 
1806, but has since 1838 been identified with the affairs of Western 
Pennsylvania, and actively engaged in the various manufacturing, 
transporting and mining interests which have made that region rich. 
For a long period he has been one of the foremost men of the State, 
and he won unusual credit as a representative in Congress of the 
Pittsburgh district, for the ten years succeeding 1858. His public 
service covered the latter half of Mr. Buchanan's administration, the 
whole of Mr. Lincoln's and of Mr. Johnson's. During his term he 
served on the great committees of the House — Xaval Affairs, Com- 
merce, and Ways and Means. He was a faithful representative of his 
people, and for the last two congresses of his service was nominated in 
the face of his declination to run. His support of his country during 
tlie struggle of the rebellion was unwavering, as his vote in public life 
and his patriotic actions in private life sufficiently attested. 

Since his retirement from Congress he devoted himself to private 
Inisiness, always freely giving his time and means to the support of the 
great charities which dot the city of his residence. He was a kind, 
charitable, generous gentleman, with the heart of a woman pulsating in 
tlie frame of a stalwart man. He died amid the sorrow of his fellow- 
citizens, and will be buried with every manifestation of the affection of 
the community to whose interests he was always devoted. 

He was a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, and was fre- 
quently a representative in its higher church courts. 

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[From the Pittsburgh Post, March Ttli, 1884.] 
GENERAL MOORHEAD DEAD. 

The death of General Moorhead will be heard with regret and sor- 
row not alone in Allegheny County and the State of Pennsylvania, 
but, by reason of his extended acquaintance in political business and 
church affairs, by leaders of men and opinion throughout the Union. 
His sturdy individuality, and aggressive bent of mind, made their 
impress on all with whom he came in contact, and very generally exer- 
cised a controlling influence in adjusting points of diiference. Denied 
the advantages of early education or culture, he was a self-made man 
in the best sense of the word, typical in physical build as in mental 
structure of the ponderous industries and great enterprises he promoted. 
He was one of the best, if not altogether the best, representative this 
county has had in Congress the last forty or fifty years. He was no 
speech -maker, but could talk solid common sense on the floor, and was 
at his best in committee service or pressing his views on individual 
members. His management and development of the Monongahela 
Slackwater illustrated how much better works of internal improve- 
ment are in the hands of individuals than under government control. 
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Unquestionably, General Moorhead's death creates a marked void in 
the community. He will be missed in many departments of business 
enterprise and measures to promote the moral welfare and advance- 
ment of the people, as well as in kindly acts and earnest friendships; 
in his hearty salutations and grim humor that always went to the 
mark. He was a man of earnest ways of thinking and acting, never 
I dodged responsibility, and struck out fair and stpiare. 

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[From the Monoiujahela BepnhUcan.'] 
THE HON. JAMES K. MOORHEAD. 

BY KEV. WM. O. CAMPBELL. 

Yesterday I looked for tlie last time on the face of a dead friend, a 
man whose name, by reason of his long and close identification with our 
riyer interests, has been within the last few days on the lips of every 
business man in the valley. Of his capacity and career as a man of 
business, others more competent have spoken, and will yet speak ; I 
only seek to bring a tribute of aifection to his character as a man and a 
Christian. That in Mr. Moorhead which impressed me most, which, I 
think, most impressed all who knew him intimately, was the massive 
character of the man. If the body is the expression of the soul, and 
not the soul of the body, if the soul takes the body, and not the body 
the soul, the mind and heart of General Moorhead were fitly housed in 
a frame of mighty mould. There are men whose minds and bodies 
seem to be mismated ; the result is that we either expect from them 
more than we get, or we get from them more than we expect. This 
was not true of him. We expected from him breadth, and vigor, and 
sturdiuess of mental action, and we were not disappointed. His strong 
and rugged mind found a fit medium of expression in the robustness of 
his body and the swing of his arm. His sterling common sense he 
brought to the settlement of questions in church government and pres- 
byterial polity, as well as to the solution of ordinary business problems, 
and they stood him in as good stead in the one as the other. His 
strong thought, when he uttered it in any assembly, was expressed in 
simple Anglo-Saxon M'ith a force unsurpassed by any who had not made 
the expression of their thought a matter of any special study. His 
l)ublic utterances on any ([uestion had ordinarily the force that attends 

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the declaration of a trutli which ]ias grown ricli through the speaker's 
long experience of it in his own character, and which he is living every 
hour. The soundness of his judgment on all practical questions was 
such that if anyone felt himself constrained to differ from him, he at 
the same time felt the need of caution in so doing. 

Though he lived a long and busy life, sustaining manifold relations 
in the spheres of business and of politics, he was a man of incorrup- 
tible moral and Christian integrity, a man in whom the business and the 
spiritual life intimately blended and were one ; one who might have 
risen far higher in the political scale had he not chosen to be highest in 
the moral. 

The breadth of his mind was only equalled by the breadth of his 
charity; the strength of his judgment by the tenderness of his emotions ; 
the earnestness of his zeal by the warmth of his sympathies; the energy 
of his will by the gentleness of his spirit; the faithfulness with which 
he adhered to his own convictions by the tolerance which he accorded 
to those of others. Ah, friend, it was pleasant to meet thee when thou 
wast here; it will be pleasant to speak of thee while thou art gone; 
most pleasant of all to greet thee at the gates of the eternal home. 

]\rr. Moorhead was a clannish man in the true sense of the term, a 
man of fine personal magnetism, one who closely adhered to others, one 
to whom others closely adhered, and if he had lived in an age and 
country of clans, he would have been a grand chieftain, and would have 
had a large personal following. 

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[From the Chicago Interior. '\ 
HON. JAMES K. MOOKHEAD. 

BY KEY. C. L. THOMPSON, D, D. 

When a strong man ceases from his work in the world it becomes the 
living to pause a moment from theirs, and encourage their hearts with 
the lessons of a successful life. Right and noble living is not so easy 
that we can afford to pass lightly by any example of how it may be 
done. The death of General Moorhead rounds to completeness a full 
term of that living, which, measured by highest standards, may well be 
called successful. This brief obituary is the tribute of love for his 
person and veneration for his character. 

He had been a citizen of Pittsburgh for nearly fifty years. Every 
one of those years widened the circle and deepened the lines of his 
influence. He was at his death not only one of the most conspicuous 
citizens of that busy city, but one of the best known men in Pennsyl- 
vania — one of the most honored of the citizens of that great Common- 
wealth, and one of the most influential elders in the Presbyterian 
Church. For many years, in the most trying period of our national his- 
tory, he was a member of the National Congress. Since the war, while 
keeping an active interest in various business enterprises, he gave his 
time and counsel to various benevolent and educational interests of the 
community. He will be missed in the hospital, the university, and 
theological seminary, as well as in the business councils of the city. 

But, next to his family, the Church of God commanded his heart and 
soul. He could truthfully say — 

"For lier my tears shall fall, 
For her my prayers ascend, 
To her my cares and toils be given, 
Till toils and cares shall end. " 

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This profound affection for Zion, this consuming zeal for the Lord's 
house, made him a model elder. He was always in his place. He was 
always ready to show his colors. He had always the courage of his 
convictions. He was a tower of strength to his pastor. And many a 
time, I doubt not, his various pastors would testify, new and sudden 
joy and hope in delivering the message of God to the people has come 
to the pulpit from that responsive, earnest, strong face in the pew. 

The Third Church of Pittsburgh has suffered an irreparable loss. 
There are many to love that historic church. There are few to love her 
with so jealous a love as filled the heart of General Moorhead. For 
four years the writer of these lines looked up to him as to a father. 
Sweet, beyond words; sweet, even unto tears, has been our fellowship. 
Once only was that face, for a few days, shadowed towards his pastor. 
It was when that pastor felt called, by Providence, to leave the Third 
Church. Even that shadow endeared the venerable saint. It said, 
plainer than all words, that above all earthly friendship was his love 
for the church. 

And now upon what a glorious rest he has entered ! For rest is a 
relative word, the meaning of which depends upon the labors which 
preceded. He carried the cares of the churches ; he responded to every 
call upon his sympathy, time and means. His last public work was a 
heroic effort, with failing strength, to go the General Assembly, the place 
where, in other years, his face and form had been so familiar. He was 
too ill to reach it, and, by order of the physician, was turned back to 
his home to wait his release. 

And then the man who had been so strong and active developed a 
new grace.* It is the crowning grace of sainthood. He became as a 
little child in his patience under inaction and suffering, and his quiet 
submission to the will of his Heavenly Father. Earnestly as he had 
toiled through the day, so serenely he waited at the evening. And, 
like a little child, he fell asleep in Jesus. This was faith's last victory. 
This completed the picture of that strong manhood, whose day was 
courage, and whose evening was submissive love. 

The Third Church has been peculiarly afflicted — shall we not say 
honored? — during the past few years in the triumphs of her dying 
saints. Many of lier fairest and best have gone beyond the gates. We 



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can imagine tliem grouped around the gateway as the old general went 
in. And we can imagine his strong arms gathering them to his breast 
as chiUhen in Christ. 

"And after that they shut up the gates, whieli, when I had seen, I 
wished myself among them." 



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